Wednesday September 10, 2014
A Look At the Past
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I was just sitting here thinking about what I would write for my next Blog. I am waiting for my “Dave’s Blog” in the Spencer Daily Reporter to be published. It is only early morning on Tuesday there in Spencer, Iowa so it may be later in the day when it gets put in the Blog section of the paper.
I thought it might be good if I shared how I put all of my “stuff” in order when I made the decision to go to the Philippines. Below is a photo showing some of the things I had to put somewhere.
The first two photos above are pictures of my Living or Front room the last is a photo of my bedroom.
As you may see, I had a lot of stuff to find a place for or get rid of. I was able to rent a storage place not to far from where I lived. It was about the size of a small garage. Josh Guffey and his lady friend helped me with a lot of the moving of my “stuff” to the storage garage. We were able to move most of it in her small VW car. It took a lot of back and forth trips.
Above is pictured a small Yellow VW like the one we used to move most of my things from my apartment to my storage unit.
I also gave some things to the Salvation Army an some I just gave to friends. By the time I was ready to go to the airport for my flight to the Philippines I had everything removed from my apartment. A friend from my men’s Bible study group from the Coralville Methodist church that I attended was picking me up at 7 AM the day my air plane was to depart. He was on time and off I went on my journey.
I had two “carry-ons”, my laptop computer and a small bag. Then I also had a larger suitcase with wheels and a handle which was stored in the air plane’s storage area.
I went through an extensive check-in security check when I was ready to proceed to my departing Gate. I even had to remove my shoes to be checked.
Once all the security checking was done I was told I could proceed to my departing gate.
My flight to the Philippines took me to Detroit first, which was actually East, then from Detroit I had a direct flight to Manila with a stop in Nagoya, Japan for fuel and plane cleaning. I didn’t have to change plane just wait in the DC-10 I had been riding on.
After about a one and a half hour lay-over we took off for Manila where Evelyn had told me she would meet me for our trip to Cebu City.
That’s about it for this Blog. I made it through all the checking stations and met Evelyn which made me very happy.
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