Cebu City – Mactan Island in Lapu-Lapu

Cebu City – Mactan Island in Lapu-Lapu

I flew into Cebu City (population 8 million) and stayed on Mactan Island in a place called Lapu-Lapu for 3 nights before meeting meeting up with the group in Dumaguete. I visited the Magellan Cross.  It is a replica of the original cross Magellan set in Cebu in 1521....
Beginning of an Asian Adventure

Beginning of an Asian Adventure

I have begun my 6th trip to Asia with Julia Tindall, the yoga instructor from California.  I left Dallas Friday evening and arrived in Cebu City, Philippines Sunday night. (you loose a day going over) The flight was 14 hours from LA to Hong Kong leaving about 1:00AM....
Wandering Gary and Olive go home

Wandering Gary and Olive go home

This is my final post from my Polish Exploration.  It is early Saturday morning and I am back home with my dogs at my feet and an ice pack on my low back. Pictured below a Kabob stand where I ate many of the Pita or Tortilla filled creations.  It was roasted chicken...
Communism and Nowa Huta

Communism and Nowa Huta

To provide some contrast to seeing the concentrations camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, I decided to go on a light hearted trip back in time to an example of the perfect communist town of Nowa Huta ( which means New Steel Mill).http://www.answers.com/topic/nowa-huta  I...
How I spent my day on 9/11

How I spent my day on 9/11

As fate would have it, I went to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland on 9/11/11.  The day where everyone all over the world was remembering and reflecting on Wars.  Television broadcasts from all over the world spent most of their time talking and...
Beautiful Krakow

Beautiful Krakow

After a very long and painful train ride I arrived just before dark in Krakow.  When I walked to the main town square for the first time I went, “YEA, now this is what I’m talking about”.  Warsaw was pretty much a huge dark and grey ugly city for the...