http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/MrWake/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from MrWake en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:51:11 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:51:11 +0000 This is my final entry for now as I arrived home safesound. But prior to going back to work.... I arrived in Manila Friday morning and after 12 day of touring the city was ready to go home. While the people are friendly the city is not. All the traffic lights we hate I wish Manila had not that anyone driving really pays any attention to the traffic lights that are present. The general rules http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-116645.html Happy New YearThe drive to from southern to northern Leyte was very beautiful and then I got to Sogod which is quite the bustling city. Rather than wait for another jeepney I took a van which meant being crammed into the back of one with about 15 other people for 2.5 hours. I am glad I did though since the roads were not good especially at the top of the mountains where the roads had be http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/blog-115177.html I hope you all had a great Christmas. Mine was spent diving at the southern tip of the island of Leyte after arriving at Pete's Dive Resort one day prior to Chrismas. I was not a stowaway on the ferry from Cebu City to Hilongos for long since the ferry tickets were collected shortly after departure. I simply paid the fare with all the other passengers who also had paid extra to get past securi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/blog-114164.html Hello Again I left Puerto Galera after several great dives took a 4hour public commute to Roxas spent the night. The next day I traveled by boat to Borocay. The trip was not too exciting and was uneventfull except for watching the local 1013 year old boys from Roxas jumping 30 feet off the ferry boat to dive for your spare pasos.Boracay is quite the Philippino and international destinatio http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Boracay/blog-113716.html Hello EveryoneI made it to Manila Friday evening as the sun was setting and after 28 hours of travel 26 hours of flying two 1hour transfers in Taipei and Singapore. I do not know how much I slept on the flights but I was not overly tired. Manila is a pretty busy and smoggy city especially at rush hour but my taxi driver got me to my chosen hotel in the Ermita District. Getting from the ai http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Puerto-Galera/blog-111694.html Hi Everyone Just a note to let you know that I will be trading the So. California beaches for those in the Philippines over Christmas and New Years. It will be my first major vacation since joining CH2M HILL 1.5 years ago. Luckily my supervisor travels for weeks on end overseas as wellMany of you said you enjoyed the narrative of my trip through Central America 2 years ago. With this site http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Venice-Beach/blog-103107.html