Tag: travel
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Flying to Palawan, days 2 and 3 recap
Well, we made it to Palawan. We actually arrived on Saturday and it is now technically Monday morning, but our time has been packed and Internet is slow. The flight from Manila to Palawan was delayed a little, so we got to fly over the Philippine Sea at sunset. The view was breathtaking, looking out…
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Many meetings in Manila (recap of Day 1)
Friday was such a full day I don’t know quite where to begin. Between jetlag and culture adjustment, I think I’m doing pretty well. It’s interesting to be here for a second time. Things aren’t overwhelming, and I can notice things more specifically. I recognize a few places we visited two year ago, which is…
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Philippines, Day 1
It’s morning in Manila. Last night I skipped ahead to Friday, landing in the Philippines after leaving Hawaii around lunch on Wednesday and then having a brief layover in Guam. I didn’t see much of Guam because it was via the plan windows or from the airport, but the island is beautiful, with green hills…
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Hawaii, revisited
This week I’m back in Hawaii, visiting friends and generally soaking up sun that I’ve been missing for the last eight months. Next week I leave for the Philippines and a very different trip; this week is about relaxing and enjoying good company. I don’t actually have much to report. The island is the same,…
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San Francisco and the Muir Woods
The day after our visit to Monterey, J and I continued up the coast to San Francisco. Since we were so close and we’d both always wanted to visit, we couldn’t resist. We picked a destination (the Muir Woods, but I’ll get to that next) and headed north. In less than two hours, we found…
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Last weekend, J and I took a roadtrip north to Monterey and San Francisco. You can see all of the photos here. The main destination on Saturday was the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Housed in an old cannery, the Aquarium is now home to a huge collection of California’s native marine species, from fish and turtles…
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Joshua Tree National Park, revisited
As it is springtime (and as he hadn’t been), I took J to Joshua Tree National Park in search of wildflowers. We seem to have arrived about a week (or maybe two) too early, but it was still beautiful and the afternoon sunlight stretching across the desert made the colors all the more vivid. The…
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Pioneertown, California: a little real and a little surreal
The day after camping at the trailer palace, J and I (and our friends who went with us) decided to drive to Pioneertown. Pioneertown is a little place in the middle of almost nowhere that has a restaurant, a post office, a motel, and some buildings that are all straight out of an Old West…
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Trailer park fun and vintage things older than me: Joshua Tree camping trip
I apologize for the break in daily posting. Last week J and I went camping (of a sort) with some friends in the Joshua Tree National Park area. We stayed in an artists’ retreat, of the sort that values their privacy (and so doesn’t give out an address, just directions a few days before you…
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The Volavkas do L.A. Kind of.
Since our purpose in going to Los Angeles was to visit the La Brea tar pits, J and I didn’t really plan on doing much sight seeing. That was for another day, another trip. However… The two hour drive TO La Brea was over three hours BACK to San Diego (as we’d stayed at the…
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