Archive for the 'Travel' Category

Maria Cristina Falls & Power Plant

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

After attending the Iligan Eagles Club induction of new members on April 5, 2008, the following morning we went to Maria Christina Fall and Hydroelectric Plant.

It was really not anywhere near as impressive at Churchill Falls and Hydroelectric Plant, back in 1980, and which generates 5.5 GW. But getting to Churchill Falls is a pain […]

Rhovics Resort, Oroquieta, Misamis Occidental

Friday, October 5th, 2007

The morning of Wednesday, September 26, 2007, Teresa found out that the horse fighting in Conception would not happen until Thursday, and since I was determined to only go to the village of Conception one time, we decided to wait until Thursday for the trip up the mountain.
So instead we toured the mini-zoo at MOAP, […]

Misamis Occidental Aquamarine Park (MOAP)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

On our way to the remote tribal village of Conception, in the province of Misamis Occidental, and inside the Mount Malindang National Park, we stopped at MOAP (Misamis Occidental Aquamarine Park) to spend the night and take our dinner, which is in the municipality of Sinacaban.
This park is in an estuary area, full of mangrove […]

Jil Wrinkle and Epril, Filipinas

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Jil Wrinkle is one of my blog readers, which he found by searching on some as yet undisclosed keyterms (I should ask him what search term he used to find my blog, but I don’t blog for keyterms, but since I do SEO, it would be interesting to know what he searched for to find […]

Tom Fagan, in The Philippines

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Tom is, like, well, my best friend in The Philippines. Tom is from St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and he came to The Philippines to find his asawa (wife). Tom was previously married in American for 23 faithful years, but when his kids had grown up and left the house, and it was just […]

Manila

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I have previously been to Manila three times, just passing through. Twice I rented a car and driver at the airport and got a tour of the city. Once I stayed overnight in downtown Manila, because we my flight from LA had been into 200 knot headwinds, we had to stop in […]

Sarabia Family, Loon, Bohol

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Marissa’s mother is from Loon (pronounced “lew-on”), Bohol, and since we were going to SouthWestern Bohol for one of our honeymoon stops, we stopped by Loon to visit Marissa’s Uncle Donie and Aunt Flory.

This is a pic of Sarabia family was taken by Ali, our Bohol tour guide (phone 0915-306-8479).

The Church of Our Lady Of […]

Superferry travel in The Philippines

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Marissa and I took off from Cagayan de Oro to Cebu on the night of September 4, 2006, via Superferry 12. There are several levels of accomodation, the best being a Suite Room, the second being a State Room. I had originally reserved a Suite Room for the overnight trip, but the […]

Asian Spirit puddle jumping island hopping

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Marissa, her chaperone brother Mario (Jo Jo), and I had planned to take the Superferry from Cebu to Cdo overnight on Saturday evening, but the only accomoodations were open air (without air conditioning), so we decided to fly instead. The one-hour flight was about $70 each, though there was a 10 kilo per passenger […]