This photo taken upon arrival in Yangshuo China at 10:00 pm
Friday, April 29, 2011
RICHARD DREYFUSS' FAVORITE GAS STATION?
OK, this is a bit of a test of your pop culture savviness? Do you get it? Ba ha.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
SALUTE TO MANNERS...
HIDE AND SEEK IS FUN NO MATTER YOUR AGE
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
WELCOME TO CHINA. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR NEON BRIGHT, EXTRA BRIGHT, OR INSANE-TACULAR!?
Monday, April 25, 2011
MATH IN AN ELEVATOR
Sumptuous breakfast just for me! (room 2)
Six delicately arranged pure white bread toast-ettes, one "orange" beverage, a plop of jam and lump of margarine... A complete breakfast!
HONG KONG HEADACHE... MSG is bad!
I think that won ton soup I had for breakfast might have had its share of Mono Sodium Glutamate. Used for flavour, but famous for giving whopping headaches. I have a one now... no fun. I hope I can avoid MSG for the rest of the China trip.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
BROCCOLI BATHROOM
I am in Hong Kong in a room so small that you have to get on the bed to close the door. It is as big as the bed! Toilet here too but it reeks like old Broccoli! Gross. If you are unfamiliar with this smell I encourage you to find some so you too can relive this classy hotel experience.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
SPELUNKING!
Friday, April 22, 2011
CRUCIFICTION ANYONE?
Just back from the "Crucifiction Festival" north of Manila. Great fun for the whole family. Watch people get nailed to crosses while eating your ice cream and buying "Sponge Bob" balloons. Really.
WANT TO VOLUNTEER TO BE CRUCIFIED? LINE UP.
Yep, they really nail them to crosses on Good Friday in San Fernando Pampagna. Their is also a parade of men doing some self flagellation. If you want to you can stop at places where other people will swat you, whip you or brush your back with a broken glass brush (see photos!) Thousands of spectators watch and eat ice cream and buy souvenir Spongebob SquarePants balloons. Every word is true.
(Location: San Fernando Pampangna, Philippines)
(Location: San Fernando Pampangna, Philippines)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
LIKE EGGS? MAYBE NOT AFTER THIS
Most everyone LOVES BALUT in the Philippines. They are eggs that have been boiled just 5 days before hatching. That means you get to eat feathers, claws, eyes, beak and all the other exciting bits. Seriously everyone loves them. Wait till you hear in the show what happened when I ate one.
(Location: Road back to Manila from Sagada, Philippines)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
SUPER SPELUNKING!
WOULD I LIKE A WOOD BIKE? WOULD I EVER!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
2 DAY WALK IN RICE PATTIES IN BANAUE PHILIPPINES
This should go on your bucket list. GREAT place to walk. Spectacular, but you need a good sense of balance...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
28 HOUR BUS RIDE WHEN YOU ARE SICK SUCKS...
Left Legaspi yesterday at 6:30 pm and arrived in Banaue at 8:30 pm. I am not only exhausted, I am really sick. on the mend a bit now, but the first 16 hours were horrendous. I ate a BALUT (because I had to for the show) and didnt expect it would almost kill me ;-). What is a BALUT... well that is a 25 day old egg... only 4 days from hatching and then the cook it and eat it. Little beak, eyes, claws, feathers and all... Guess I should have known
Friday, April 15, 2011
DIVING WITH WHALE SHARKS
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
MOUNT MAYON VOLCANO
Monday, April 11, 2011
I was served dinner by a man named Dong Dong
What more need be said. You know it is going to be great food when Dong Dong serves it up. The Restaurant was called "Fort Wally" which is equally inviting!!
(On the 7 hour bus trip from El Nido Back to Puerto Princessa.
Thank goodness for air con.
Fans are fine, but it is hot and sticky here, so the a/c in this room is welcome! Now have to foray out into the hot wet air for dinner. Will I lose more weight than I consume on the 30 min walk there? Stay tuned ;-)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
EL NIDO BEACHES. SUPER WOW
Your going to pay for that Slurpee... right?
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Menu item today...
I could have ordered a "hand job pizza" today in palawan, philippines. Did I miss a great meal I wonder?
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
So, a priest and a giraffe go into an airport....
Oh... Uh.... Nevermind I guess that joke would have bombed...
WHERE IS MY PHONE... COOL LOCATOR
My friend Paul showed me how a computer program can locate my phone (and hopefully me) anywhere in the world. It is working rather well and keeping my somewhat worried Mom at ease in being able to see the exact street intersection I am at at almost any given moment. She even followed my for a few seconds as the plane TOOK OFF in Vancouver. Very cool. She saw me on the runway... then advancing down the tarmac... then suddenly gone as signal was lost at altitude. Really impressive software. With the map of Manila here the only thing you cannot tell is how crazy big this city is! I am a waaayyyyy smaller dot that the blue one you see there!
The program is me.com and it is free. You can pay for a bigger version that does more (or get it free for 60 days like I am doing).
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
ARRIVED IN MANILA
Arrived at around 1 pm or so and it was 30 degrees or 85 F. I must have looked like I was dressed for winter with long pants and boots.
Hot and sticky but a welcome feeling that brings back great memories of tropical asia :-)
I hope I can eat my own weight in Mangos while I am here!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
SLEEPING IN A SECRET CORNER OF THE BEIJING AIRPORT
You are not supposed to do this, but with just about 8 hours till my 7 am departure to Philippines, I thought it made more sense to hunker down in the airport. This is supposed to be adventure anyway right? This is in the shopping mall area right by a children's store. No one bothered me... not even night cleaners. How lucky.
I got to use the wifi in the morning too. Nice :-)
My accommodations on the floor of the hong kong airport
Not so fancy this time. Like sleeping on concrete floor of a shopping mall!
MY "ROOM" ON THE PLANE
I love flying on points! Here are my accommodations on the plane to Beijing. Yahoo ( sent from hong kong since Beijing disallows blogging)
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