San Jose New Market

Oh how I love a good market! It can assail the senses like few things can…and I mean that in a positive way. Sure the first thing that comes to mind is the wafting of smells that aren’t always peak floral fragrances, but more than that there just always seems to be so much going […]

Movin’ to the country…gonna eat me a lot of…Halo Halo?

Moving days are not our favorite days, what with all the packing and reorganizing and tidying and loading ourselves up with our all our belongings, but it went pretty well, all said, and we were able to fit in a bit of school and a bit more swimming. We tricycled up to the local immigration […]

Old digs – Puerto Princesa, Camilla

Meant to give a “tour”of where we’ve been staying earlier but… better late then never. Obviously you’ve seen in our pictures the general space, but it has been interesting the little differences (besides just the smaller space). And if we’re going to remember all the places we’ve been I think I best make a point […]

The sun came out and it got HOT!

Luckily we were able to go swimming by 7am. Like polar bearing, (Marion even graced us with some “a la scaloosh!) but much hotter and we had been up for 3 hours already. Yup, wake up time still seems to be about 3:30am. Off to town Old military base that was now a site for […]

Day 2 – can’t imagine I can keep up this pace of documentation!

What you do when everyone’s awake at 4am due to messed up sleep cycles: And then you play cribbage and get a 28 point hand?! Why does this not happen at Seabeck? The rainy season has yet to depart but it’s still a balmy 82, so these PNW folk won’t be deterred from some pool […]

Good Morning, Philippines

And good afternoon, good evening and goodnight! Hard to believe it’s still day 1! Absorbing so much new: sights and sounds and smells, that even even a 3hour nap didn’t seem to shorten things up :). Thank goodness we were able to check into our condo in the wee hours (ok, early morning after the […]

It’s happening!!!!

Introspection turned to aaaaaack!!!! Yay!! Oh my gooodneeessss!! Thank you to mom for bring us North (and C-big!) and driving our minivan home and all the general love and support. Thank you to our amazing overnight hosts (fail on no Dickson family photo-superb stay, 5 stars 🙂 and especially Caroline for the “keep your mouth […]

Aufwiedersehen

If only I knew how to say farewell in Tagalog! or more importantly until we see each other again (thanks High school German) But soon my friends…fingers crossed…we will know the words and we will be back seeing your beautiful faces in the flesh (irl young ones). And more than ta-ta, off we go! In […]

The Journey Begins

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