Amorita Resort Bohol

... with me and it was fun discussing the exhibits and things we knew about Albuquerque, NM, Lubbock TX and the museum at Pecos TX.

I finally got my answers about the history of 'the Cherokee Strip' and of the town of Alva. I don't think I can summarize it better than what I found in a brochure today:
"In 1835, the US government and the Eastern Cherokee tribe agreed to set aside a 57 mile wide strip of land running west ...

I hope you all are as excited as I am! I hope that if you aren't packed already, you have started to lay out everything you think you might want. Then when you are really closing up that suitcase to go to the airport, you can throw out HALF of those clothes. Remember "he (or she) who travels lightly travels happily."

This week you will want to print out a ...

... for a spell to see what it was like. We realized that in all the years that Don had run combines on our farm, I had never had the opportunity to ride with him. It seemed that I was always picking up one small rider and replacing them with another, running for parts, prepared meals for delivery, and looked after the little ones who were not visiting with Dad!

I took a few shot from the combine which provide ...

Greetings future travelers! This entry is just a trial run for you and your families to become familiar with our blog. While we are on our trip, one or two students will be asked to write about our day. These entries will be posted to this blog as often as is possibe (meaning the Interent is available.) It's a great way for family and friends to live vicariously with us. Enjoy!

I hope you all are as excited as I am about our upcoming Bon Voyage party (June 7) and our trip!!! This is basically a "practice run" for you and your family to get familiar with our Travelpod. I uploaded the only two pictures I have taken (shame on me).
Anthony, Kansas, United States wichitap2p

it is here where we first started doing the work we came here for, harvesting wheat. this place is really humid in the summer time and wet as well, Anthony is in heart of Americas largest wheat growing state Kansas, and in the country that grows the most wheat in Kansas.

On Friday I went over to Bohol with one of the girls I met on Cebu. Bohol is another island not too far from Cebu and it is famous for its Chocolate Hills. We took the SuperCat ferry over. There are three ferry companies going at different times so it's hard to figure out which pier to go to. Fortunately I found a website that listed all the times and companies. The fare was 450 pesos per person and the journey was less ...

... I also went out to the surounds to check out the endangered tarsier, the smallest primate, tiny and cute. Next I decided to get to the beach and headed to Alona beach on the nearby Panglao island. It turned out to be a divers hang out and a bit pricy. Popular with German tourists, there are a load of buisnesses run by German guys and their Phillipena wives. I met some really cool local people and had a great time hanging out.

Barely making it to Manila airport and onto our flight, we had a short hop- during which Ryan had to sit next to Casey and I, making him jealous of Lisa and her new old creepy German friend Wully the cockfighting promoter- to Cebu, the largest airport down south. We hoofed it over to the harbor and bought tickets for the next ferry to Bohol set to leave several hours later. We were at first put off by the security guards prowling the grounds carrying heavy artillery ...

We flew from Borcay to Cebu. Our main plan from here was to take a boat to the island of Bohol. However, first we had to renew our visa in Cebu which expired in 2 days. This little guy cost us 40 bucks! We only needed 8 extra days in the country, but they only give out 59 extra days for one price so we had to take it. This little, bureaucratic process took so much time that we were sure that we had missed the last boat to Bohol and had resigned ourselves to the fact that we ...