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Checking Out Oslob and Tanawan
Saturday August 6, 2014
6:30 a.m. Oslob, Cebu
Still in Oslob this morning. I might leave once I have my morning coffee, but we’ll see. My body could use another day to recover. And it’s rare to get a comfortable room for 200 pesos a night, especially one right on the ocean, so it would be nice to stick around another day and night.
After breakfast yesterday morning, …
Fire Sweeps Through Neighborhood in Cebu City
A fire broke out on Tuesday evening (March 18, 2014) in a tightly-packed residential area in Barangay Lorega in Cebu City in the Philippines. According to newspaper reports, 500 homes were destroyed, leaving as many as 7,000 people homeless. Not surprisingly, despite staying just a few blocks from this area, I was completely unaware of the calamity until a couple of days later. Disasters seem …
The Trangia Camp Stove and the New Multi-fuel Burner X2
I want to talk camp stoves. My favorite stove – and almost the only one I’ve ever used – is the Trangia. The Trangia is a unique stove out of Sweden that uses alcohol as a fuel. It’s not terribly well-known in North America, I don’t think. For a North American to understand this stove, you just have to think fondue. It’s pretty much like …