Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Banaue & Batad
Written on Feb. 3rd, 2014 We left Manila 10MPM Saturday night to take the overnight bus North to Banaue. The seats were probably perfectly sized for Asian bodies but were a bit snug for us. The bus was a somewhat standard coach style bus but had an additional row of flip out seats in the…
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Manila
We have spent this week in Manila and have just purchased our tickets to move on from here. We spent a couple more days than we otherwise would have planned in order to take in the Chinese New Year here where there is a very large Chinese-Filipino population. Before we move on, we thought we’d…
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Over the Pacific
The following post was written on the flight to Hong Kong then posted from our first hotel in Manila. As I write this we are passing 36,000 feet over Tokyo Japan and it’s apparently 47 degrees below outside at this altitude. Makes Minnesota seem balmy. We’re 10 hours into our 14 hour flight to…
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Our bags are packed!
We each got nice new hiking packs (thank you Taften and Thomas!) and they are all packed up and ready to go! We’ve been breaking in our walking shoes (thank you Absandian, Chris and Brigid!) The passports with our new names arrived late last week which was cutting it a little close for our comfort,…
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Looking Back and Looking Ahead at the Same Time
It’s been 5 months since our wedding celebration and we are still reveling in how lovely the whole week was. Thank you again to everyone who came out or sent well wishes in their absence. Prior to the wedding, we had so many people warn us that the whole thing would fly by and we…
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Hello Family & Friends!
Although Colin first contacted Rachel in December of 2009, it took until May of 2010 for the two of them to meet in person. They met up at Minnehaha Falls where one of Rachel’s friends was having a birthday party. When Colin arrived, Rachel had just gone off to check out the falls. By the…
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