Day Eleven – Super Typhoon Yolanda
My experience of the typhoon continues to deepen, as yesterday I had the opportunity to go out with a Bureau […]
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Day Eight – Super-Typhoon Yolanda
It rained a great deal during the night, but the sun has come up this morning in clear skies. It
Days Six & Seven – Super Typhoon Yolanda
This day began without my usual pounding heart. The hotel has filled with people – including several children and 14
Photo Walkabout and Karaoke Horror
It’s 6:30 p.m., an unusual time for me to fire up the NEO, but I have been ambushed by the
At the Barangay Captain’s House in Lawaan
I don’t know where these moods come from, but as I left from Guiuan, I could feel that I was
A Walk to the Weather Radar Station
I had plans to leave Guiuan yesterday, but I woke up to rain and it continued to rain off and
Second Prison Visit
My second visit to the prison began very much like the first. I showed up at 1:00 o’clock, and there
Visit to a Cockfighting Arena
Mark, the fellow that runs the sari-sar store and who took me out to his farm on his motorcycle, wasn’t
Cycling Around Biliran
Another chorus of roosters and the eye-burning stench of cigarette smoke to greet the new day. I don’t know why,
Devoured by Mosquitoes at the Fire Station
I had been told that after Catbalogan, the road became very hilly and difficult with long, hard climbs. That turned