Travel, Traffic, Food. A Tale of Two Dons. Monday, August 14, 2006. El Nido, named for the nests of the swiftlets which inhabit the cliffs, is situated on beautiful Bacuit Bay and affords a vista of the breathtaking Bacuit Archipelago. There are 45 islands rising out of the sea, most fringed by coral reefs.

Travel, Traffic, Food. Geology, Palawan, and El Nido. Saturday, July 15, 2006. Don West and Don Cooper are two successful Barrio Barretto businessmen. Their shops are diagonally across from one another on the National Highway. Both businesses were begun in 2004. Within the next year Don and Trixie plan to expand their business considerably.

A Tale of Two Dons. Geology, Palawan, and El Nido. Wednesday, July 12, 2006. I had to explain I had only been in country a couple of days. As my Mexican friends say.

Travel, Traffic, Food. A Tale of Two Dons. Geology, Palawan, and El Nido. Friday, July 14, 2006. They give each other the high five for any shared joke or gotcha . Although the women have a low melodious voice when talking in English to their foreign boyfriends, when they talk together they are quite noisy and sound like a flock of geese. , The Filipinos laugh more than any group I have observed.

Travel, Traffic, Food. A Tale of Two Dons. Geology, Palawan, and El Nido. Sunday, July 16, 2006. I was in grade school during WW 2 and followed events through newsreels and newspapers. I felt sad during the defeat of Bataan, the loss of Corregidor, and the Death March. The Phil-Am troops were my heroes when I was a kid. Some of the Bataan troops escaped the Japanese as did a .