Yeah me! I decided to start doing my longer walks this morning. My meet up with a glass door and 10 sutures later, I can now continue training, more or less, for a 6k run/Walk I want to do in September. I turned on my "MapMyWalk" app in our apartment before taking the elevator downstairs, and I turned it off when I got back to our lobby 54 minutes later. My only stops were two short water breaks. I walked up to the Fuente Circle, turned W on B Rodrigues, S on V Rama St, E on J Alcantara St, and N back up Osmena Blvd to our place S of the Circle. 2.61 miles in a little under 55 minutes. ps - We'll be doing a Lot of walking when we go back to the Seattle area at the end of the month.

I shared this photo/post 6 years ago, on 13Jul20. It's from a hike Andrea, me and Nate took from Paradise Lodge on Mt Rainier some years earlier - "This is Nathan on the Skyline Loop Trail on Mt Rainier, quite a few years ago. It feels like he's very far away, on the top of the world. Sort of like now, with him being in Japan, and the Virus telling us all to stay in place..."

13Jul22 - We drove up to Charlie's Cup on the Transcentral Highway going NW out of Cebu, "a roadside cafe along the cliffs of Balamban". The best Churros in Cebu someone told us. When we were eating and enjoying the view, I pointed out a lake on the distant horizon, and a little later someone said "let's go to "Lakeview". I followed my sister-in-law out of Charlie's Cup, and I turned left to where our car was parked. I said "the car's down here" as she continued walking up the hill. What? The "Lakeview" Le Jardin Cafe and Restaurant was right next door. The many gardens, greenery and flowers were magnificent, but I got distracted before we even reached them. Wonderfully crafted mosaics and the rock pathways and terraces were everywhere... ps - We've returned multiple times, and I took a slew of photos. I'll share them as they pop up in my Memories folders...

A few thoughts while I'm doing my morning computer routine: checking our banks to see if any sleazeballs have been nozing around, some news, FB (just peeking). but FB "Memories" for sure!, my Blog, Messages from my siblings, etc... all before we go to the gym. This photo is from my favorite weatherman. He has family here in Cebu I think, and this was at the top of my FB feed. I usually scroll down a few pages before I click on my FB Memories for the day. Two other thoughts. 1. the electric fans here are built to last! 24/7. They're tough! We don't use our AC that much, partly because of cost, and partly because we don't like the artificial Cold whatever. 2. the adhesives here, because of the climate, are made to Stick! That's all for now. Your old bro...

The view photo is similar to what I've been lookling at when I leave the gym while Inday is still working out. I go up to Floor #19 of Club Ultima and wander over to the Hotel side where their elevators are for the Skywalk etc. I have a bunch of photos and videos I have to edit from these wanderings.

10Jul2016 - Disappointment to Satisfaction. I knew I should have stopped at 6:15 this morning when I was driving by some train boxcars along Airport Way. There was some really cool tagger art that I wanted to photograph. They were moved before I rode my bike back down there around 7:30. Oh well. I did get in a nice 12 mile bike ride around the perimeter of Boeing Field, AND I Re-discovered this little house in Georgetown belonging to a Collector of things. It's a feast for the eyes, and when I go by here every year or two it always surprises me. This time I had my camera, and I took some photos.

9Jul23 - I saw Jesse, the Maintenance Guy for our apartment complex, coming around the corner at the far end of the main road. His little golf cart came to a stop, and then it slowly started moving towards me. The man standing under the medium sized tree, looking up into the branches, was me, with my camera. Jesse did a U Turn, and resumed whatever he was doing...

9Jul16, in Walla Walla WA for Andrea's and Ray's wedding: before and after photos of me and my siblings, Before and WAY After... I made sure I stood a little forward in our line up so I could still be the tallest one :)

This post is from 5 years ago, during Covid time, on 8Juyl21 - "Our little museum in Bothell WA has been closed due to Covid since last year. We just celebrated the 4th of July! They've been changing the exhibits periodically, and displaying them by highlighting items near the windows. This is a win-win for me because I also like the glass windows, and the reflections - there are "layers" of images, from close-ups to items in the middle of the rooms, and out through the windows on the other side...

some images from my FB Memories this morning...

Some BW photos from earlier Cebu taxi rides...

from 3Jul2016 - "My walk yesterday morning and my bike ride today were both exercises in nostalgia. Yesterday I walked up "the Ave" (University Avenue) and thru the UW campus. Today I rode my bike along the waterfront to Century Link Field, up through Chinatown, back up to the Pike Place Market and the Myrtle Edwards Park. I didn't take out my camera until I got to 4th and Main where the "Gasperetti's Roma Cafe" once stood. Gasperetti's was owned by my Uncle Bill Gasperetti, and I worked there from age 15 1/2 up to age 19? There's a new building there now, currently under construction. I found this Postcard photo with Google just now. I remember they had them by the Cashier. That's my Uncle Bill and Aunt Marie coming out to their car. The thing that got me to pull out my camera was this group of new commemorative tiles along the sidewalk. Gordon Hirabayashi was a Japanese American Sociologist who at age 24 was imprisoned for disobeying the WWII internment order."

from 2Jul22, 4 years ago - My better half walked with me yesterday morning, the first of many Bothell walks together. Nice day. We walked our "meadow" walk, the old Wayne golf course, and we chose the trail on the other side of the river that goes along the hillside. There are some Very nice houses on East side of the bridge when you walk over. The river view shot is looking West (photos with old iPhone SE)

This is one of my favorite shots from the Greenwood Car Show 2 years ago, on 1Jul24. This little girl was taking in the car show with her family, maybe after attending a church service or something. I wonder what she was thinking...

30Jun17 These images are tar coated support posts - under a roadway going over the Green River in Tukwila WA