Highwaymen
Returning to the United States was bittersweet; it was good to be home, but sad to leave the beautiful country we had grown to love.
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Travel
Destination Highway 2: British Columbia from Golden to Osoyoos
Banff was beautiful, but we had to continue south to keep up with our schedule. British Columbia awaited us, and it had its own unique natural beauty that co...
Alberta Rockies and Banff Lakes
Winding our way northward, we finally entered the Alberta Canadian Rockies where we rode in the shadow of colossal snow-capped peaks and stopped at the shore...
Going to the Sun - Missive on Motorcycling Alberta
Alberta is incredible. Vast expanses of sky spread infinitely across plains that race westward toward the Rockies. I was constantly awed by the colors and c...
A Desolate Country Road
Night was coming. The twilight fringes of the eastern sky were creeping toward the once-brilliant sunset. The clouds that were once white and welcoming we...
Cruisin’ Canada - Prelude to our Motorcycle Trip
Julie and I recently completed two weeks on a motorcycle, traveling more than 3500 miles in two weeks. This was a first for Julie, and a first for me in Cana...
Cebu City Temple Dedication
Sunday morning we woke up early. My stay with the San Enrique members had too many unnecessarily early mornings and Sunday was no exception. Our session was ...
Goodbye Negros, Philippines
Last Thursday I finally left Bacolod, Negros for San Enrique. I first stopped off at the Carriedo family and had a nice time seeing Pinky, Opie, Bambie, and ...
A Poor Wayfaring Kano
After I posted the last two posts on Monday in La Carlotta I felt a hunger stirring in my belly. This hunger was a little suspicious, however I trusted it an...
Kabankalan II, The Return of Brad2x
I left Sipalay Friday morning around 11 am. I walked back to my bike where they told me that I had to wait a couple hours for the tide to go down because at ...
Proud to be a Negros Baby!
I left Dipolog the next day. Before I packed up I took a couple pictures of the “fire exit” right next to my room.
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’
Today was a travel day. I found that I have travel days and I have enjoy days. I don’t really tend to split them up, which is fine, but I didn’t do much toda...
Tinago Falls in Iligan, Mindanao
After getting a shave and a pretty unflattering haircut in Cagayan de Oro I made the short one and a half hour drive to Iligan. I read in my guide book that ...
Central Mindanao
I ended up staying in San Francisco an extra day. I spent the day swimming in the pool, trying to upload some posts at the really slow local internet cafe, a...
Arriving In Mindanao
Monday night I slept in Tacloban at the Welcome Home Pensione. I went to pick up my pants around 5:45pm but they were closed so I went to Jollibee and ate di...
Borongan –> Guiuan –> Tacloban
Saturday I left Borongan, Samar and headed south toward my next destination, Guiuan. The road south (and north) of Borongan is terrible. Pete, the owner of P...
Samar
Thursday I finally left Tacloban. My pants won’t be ready until Monday the 10th. I left Tacloban and headed north up to the San Juanico bridge. It’s a pretty...
Into The West
This song never fails to remind me of living in Old Escalante in 2004 as a missionary. I listened to it two nights ago, and it’s incredible how real and forc...
Beautiful Leyte
I left Bogo Sunday morning to go to the wharf where I would catch my ferry. I arrived there around 10:00 so that I could catch the 11:00 ferry. But when they...
The Long And Winding Road To Bogo
I left my room in Toledo around 10 am Saturday morning. I woke up around 7 and had a somewhat lazy morning. The place I stayed in, Toledo Traveler’s Inn, was...
On The Road! Carcar to Toledo
Today (Friday) I took it easy in the morning; I typed up a blog post and a few emails, read some scriptures and wrote in my journal, worked out, and packed u...
From Cebu City To Carcar, or, How I Met My XR200
Finally, things are starting to get off the ground. On Tuesday of this week I finally checked out of the Diplomat hotel. I returned the scooter back to Paul ...
My First Few Days In Cebu
My first few days in Cebu City have been really quite strange. I’m still waiting for my luggage, though the Korean Air reps are now telling me it’s in Manila...
Getting There
I’m sitting in Seoul Incheon Airport waiting for my transfer flight to Cebu City, just under 3 hours to wait until we start boarding. Maybe I’ll watch a movi...
Philippines Motorcycle Tour 2010
I’m going to the Philippines this summer, from April to June: 60 days. Below is a map of where I plan on touring. I’m really excited!
San Pedro and Going Home
The delay in finishing up this travelogue has more to do with me wanting to forget the worst part of our Belize trip than simple procrastination. In fact, it...
Punta Gorda
Day 4: We woke up early, packed together all our things, and left the cabana at about 7:00 for the bus station. We were running a little late, and at the ter...
Dangriga and Cockscomb Jaguar Reserve
Day 2: On our first day in Dangriga we decided to take it easy. We slept in our cabana until about 10am. The sound of the surf and the cool breeze made it e...
Landing and Getting to Dangriga
First off, I apologize to the blogosphere (and a million times over to Bradford) for those of you who have been gripping the edges of your seats waiting to h...
Belize: February 11-February 18 2009
Back in October 2008 I got an email from AirfareWatchdog.com (great service, I highly recommend it) alerting me to amazing prices to Belize from Salt Lake Ci...