Tag: travel
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Australia 2014: Heading south in Western Australia
Welcome back for another installment of the Great Australia Travelogue of 2014! For the next leg of our journey, we packed up our friends’ SUV and headed onto the open road, south through WA and toward the coast and countryside.
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Australia 2014: Arriving in Perth
The second leg of our journey took us to Perth in Western Australia, to meet up with old friends and see a different part of the country. Our first morning we got up and went for a walk along the beach, and a series of inlets and small lakes with lots of local birds.
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Australia 2014: Starting in Sydney
So I’m finally getting around to getting some of my photos from our trip to Australia up and realizing I have a lot of them…. Over 3,000 actually, but as it was a three week trip, I guess that’s not too bad really. At any rate, I’m going to begin with our first stop on…
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Australia or bust!
Hello! I’ve been in Australia for the last two weeks but haven’t had much chance to really post anything simply because we’ve been so busy. Here are a few photos for now, with more to follow including a dailyish log when I have time to wort through all the photos. ^_^ In the meantime,…
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Philippines, Day 10… the extended edition?
So the last entry left us waiting at the airport. For an extra three hours. Keep in mind we’d already arrived the allotted two hours early. Yeah, you read that right– FIVE HOURS in a tiny airport. And we were supposed to have dinner during our layover in Manila. So here’s where being in the…
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Philippines, day 9… and the start of an odd adventure.
Saturday morning, we found ourselves back at the Compassion project at Life Church for their Saturday program. The kids are split into classes based on their ages, and our group broke into smaller groups to visit them in their classes. These are the oldest kids, years nine and ten, who will graduate from high school…
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Philippines, Day 8: the Underground River and Farewell Dinner
So, it’s been a couple of weeks since I got back from the Philippines and a lot has happened since then, but I still want to do the last couple of entries about the trip. This one is from Friday, June 6, and is from our trip to the Underground River, one of the Natural…
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Philippines, days 5-7
This will have to be a compacted post. The last couple of days have been long and Internet has been patchy, so there hasn’t been time to do a full update. Tuesday, we spent an entire day at the beach with our group’s Compassion sponsor kids. Most of them had never been to the beach…
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Philippines Day 4: Kids and Controlled Chaos
It’s the tail end of Monday and I’m sitting on the balcony of the hostel in the warm night air. It’s been a long, full day, and our first with the Compassion project here. We started the day with meeting all of the primary school age kids at the project partnered with Life Church. They…
Joanna Volavka 