Philippines

We just had the most exciting, action-film-like, and comical boarding experience I’ve ever seen, heard about, or experienced. We got off the flight I had written the previous blog post on with only minutes to spare until we needed to be at the gate of our connection. Upon purchasing the tickets, Scott had been told [...]

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Ok, here’s the update I promised you. It will be brief, as the past few days have not been terribly eventful. As you probably know, we have been in “Puerto Princessa”, a city (and a very clean one at that) in Palawan. We have been spending time at “Aloha House”, an intensely Christian orphanage that [...]

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Yesterday was quite a traveling day…considering the flight was only an hour long. I was packed and ready to go (the room was locked, and my backpack was sitting outside my room, on the outdoor table/chairs. I had turned in my key and was ready for action. The only problem…was that the van wouldn’t come [...]

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There was little excitement planned for the day, and this was not such a bad thing. Still feeling exhausted from the previous day’s romp with the jellyfish, we were keen on doing as little as possible for the last day we were here. We woke up, had breakfast, struggled until noon to keep ourselves entertained, [...]

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It was “island hopping” day, and we were pumped up and ready to go. We all woke up around 6:00am and had three hours to go until the excursion was scheduled to begin. The only task we absolutely needed to do in that three hour period was to pick out our fins and masks, and [...]

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As a whole, yesterday was boring and not much different from working all day in the US. We got up, Scott and Joao had a swim, and I sat outside and wrote for a while. We had breakfast at Lallie and Abbot’s resteraunt, and plotted out the days ahead. We decided to go “Island Hopping” [...]

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“What the heck is that noise!?” This was my first thought upon waking up in El Nido. A particularly awkward sounding bird coupled with the air conditioning switching off (due to the power schedule: El Nido has power from 12pm-4pm and then 6pm-6am) were the culprits all of us blamed for waking us up. It [...]

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I awoke to nothing. There was no noise, and all around was black. I groaned and opened up the window to let some light in. Having not yet taken the time to reset my cell-phone’s clock, I turned on the TV, flipped to the network’s listings channel, and took a look at the time. It [...]

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Christian here, typing away from a room at the Nichols Airport Hotel in Manila, Philippines. We wanted to give a quick update on our status (currently: Alive and well) and the events of our travel so far. It has been eventful in the right ways, and uneventful in the wrong ways…we have had very little [...]

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