Kementian News, 9/21/07 Edition

Howdy all,

 

A little longer on the trip

2hr flight from DFW to Minneapolis where I sat for 6hrs

Then a 12hr flight to Tokyo where we sat for 1hr

Then a 8hr flight down to Manilla. We landed there about 11pm Tuesday local

After making it through immigration, claiming our stuff, and clearing customs, we met and headed to the hotel for the night. We finally hit the sack around 1AM. Only to find that the time difference was to much to really get much sleep.

Rising around 6AM we headed back to the airport to catch a plane to Puerto Princess on Palawan. That was a 50min flight.

 

Wednesday we did a bunch of shopping and hit the hay.

Thursday we got up, picked up a few last items and made the 180km drive down to Brooke's Point. That took about 5hrs. To say the least the roads aren't very nice here.

 

Friday morning we made the hike into KMTN in about 2hrs. Not bad for a couple of newbies. Course we weren't carrying the 50kg loads that some of the locals were either.

 

Things are going quite well. Brandon and I are getting used to the food and the culture. We are beginning to learn the langguage, but we still have a long ways to go in that regard.

The people here, both local and expat, are just great folks.

 

Well, I'm out of time, Y'all take care!

Thank you for your continuted thoughts and prayers

God Bless!

Nathan