- I'm an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student [still] going to Brigham Young University. This blog is just a place where I can spill out my thoughts, projects and experiences. I hope you like what you see and please feel free to comment. Thanks for visiting!
Category Archives: Travel
Beautiful Leyte
This is an entry in my Philippines 2010 travel diary. This travel diary is written as one, so it may be long winded at times and include references to things that are not general knowledge. Thanks for reading!
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I left Bogo Sunday morning to go to the wharf where I would catch my ferry. I arrived there around 10 AM so that I could catch the 11 AM ferry. But when they said 11 AM they really meant 1 PM, so I sat in the shade, drinking a couple sodas and talking with some of the guys that worked at the wharf.
When I start talking to the locals this is usually how a conversation goes:
Into The West
This is an entry in my Philippines 2010 travel diary. This travel diary is written as one, so it may be long winded at times and include references to things that are not general knowledge. Thanks for reading!
Into The West, performed by Annie Lennox
The Long And Winding Road To Bogo
This is an entry in my Philippines 2010 travel diary. This travel diary is written as one, so it may be long winded at times and include references to things that are not general knowledge. Thanks for reading!
I left my room in Toledo around 10 am Saturday morning. I woke up around 7 and had a somewhat lazy morning. The place I stayed in, Toledo Traveler’s Inn, was pretty nice, albeit a little pricy at 800 php. Here are a couple shots of my room and outside the hotel.
On The Road! Carcar to Toledo
This is an entry in my Philippines 2010 travel diary. This travel diary is written as one, so it may be long winded at times and include references to things that are not general knowledge. Thanks for reading!
Today (Friday) I took it easy in the morning; I typed up a blog post and a few emails, read some scriptures and wrote in my journal, did Ab Ripper X and packed up my things. After all that I headed to a welder (Ling Ling’s in Carcar) to get a rack made for the back of my bike. It cost about 10 USD equivalent (materials, labor, and the tip I gave Boding) and it works pretty well. I didn’t get a clear shot of the finished piece, I’ll probably have one up later, but here’s a couple pictures of the work in progress.
From Cebu City To Carcar, or, How I Met My XR200
This is an entry in my Philippines 2010 travel diary. This travel diary is written as one, so it may be long winded at times and include references to things that are not general knowledge. Thanks for reading!
Finally, things are starting to get off the ground. On Tuesday of this week I finally checked out of the Diplomat hotel. I returned the scooter back to Paul W and hopped on a couple jeepneys to get to the south bus terminal. Hauling my bag around was a huge pain. I rode a mini-bus down about 40 km to Carcar city, where I met up with Paul P., who offered to rent me his XR200 for a bargain. He needed to have a new chain put on it and have it serviced so I roomed up at the Traveler’s Inn in Carcar. A decent aircon room was 500php. It took the whole next day to get the bike taken care of so I stayed another night. Here’s the bike:
