Colburn's Travels

Princess, alien, and soldier.

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With ukulele

Princess Rebeca with doll.

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6 lbs

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Girl 5lbs 12oz

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Our friends Tom and Teri just had twins today.  We were lucky to see them on our long layover in DFW.

Teri introduced Cathy to Roger. Tom and Roger went to SMU electrical enginering school together.

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Kids really enjoy the audio tours.

Had a very good tour of the Arizona memorial.

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Some of the kids enjoyed swiming with the sharks in this metal cage.  We saw 15 to 20 sharks. Cathy and Roger also went.

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Took a island air tour before our flight to Honolulu.

Saw the observatory at 14000 feet that gets snow from time to time.

Then to Kilouea which has been erupting since 1983.

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We had an early dolphin encounter today. Kids got to pet, swim, feed and kiss them.

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Eric is a hot head.  Current eruption from Kilauea.

People are rebuilding...their address is 'Flow Zone rd'.

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The ring road today is closed to to excess gases.

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The hotel has a program where you can swim with the dolphins. Today they had a free show.

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Decided to take advantage of our time here to take swimming lessons.

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The hotel had a salt water lagoon where we snorkled and took a paddle boat. Eric even saw a giant turtle.

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Arrived in Kona. Kids having a great time on the water slide.

We are staying at the vacation club area, but hotel is very impressive...monorail, boat rides to get around hotel, even a dolphin pool.

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This is the largest fish market in Korea.

The most intersting restaurants had fish tanks right at table

Some of the stalls had dried fish of every type...even stuff like mussels and squid.

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Our hotel is at the end of Haeundae beach.

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The 'restaurants' were organized into different types of fish. There were some 'streets' that only sold eel, for example.

We ended up eating an octopus and shellfish. Placed the order, walked through narrow passageways to eat next to the water. Sat next to empty fish crates.

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Ate lunch by the beach...I had never had so much food that was still moving on my plate.

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Dinner cruise on Chaophraya river in downtown Bangkok after a very long day...and flight to Korea leaves at 2am.

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Obligatory elephant ride and bamboo raft ride.

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Bridge over river kwai that was bombed by the Americans in 1945.

Took a 1 hour hot muggy loud train ride.

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From prisoners of war when the japenese were building the Burma railroad over the river kiwai.

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Chinese temple

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There are 9 sultana. The rotate every 5 years to see who will be king.

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Independence square...our guide was very appreciative of british rule.

War museum, rail road building

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Builit by the national PETRO company. It was the.tallest buidling in the world...now the 4th at 450 m. The bridge was an after thought.  There is a very nice mall in the basement.

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Our tour only took 4 hours...so we had 6 hours to waste. Went to see the movie 'Eagle Eye'. Very modern mostly Muslim country.

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Thousands of people have lived in these houses built on stilts for centuries in a village in the middle of the river.  The Venice of Asia.

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And mosque from the sultan's father.

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Palace 1700+ rooms. 50 acre building.

And the Mosque built for the current 29th sultan of Brunei. 

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With very scary canopy walk 120 feet high. 

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In the pictures:

Carniverous plant eats insects.
Santa Claus orchid.

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Tallest mountain in SE Asia 4000m.

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City of kota kinabalu in ne Borneo, Malaysia + iindoor mall + out door night market.

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View from budhist temple.

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Picture of jungle lodge by the river

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proboscis_monkey&redirect=no

We also saw a viper snake.

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Hard to see, but there Probcsis monkeys in the tree.  It was a very long way up the river to finally get to the lodge.

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At the wildlife sanctuary withs lots of monkeys and orangutans.

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After waiting and waiting and waiting the turtles finally showed up.

This particular turtle layed 88 eggs. It did not seem to be bothered that we were around it, nor that the ranger was taking the eggs as they were being hatched.

The ranger immediately put the eggs in a hole in the hatchery where it will take 60 days for them to hatch.  As you can see they have hundreds of protected nests on the island.

After that the ranger released the turtles that were hatched today.

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An island from the philipines is only 10 miles away.

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Going to Seling island...an island with many turtles where we will spend the night.

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Highest mountain in south east Asia.

On flight to Sandakan, Malaysia.

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We took different t shirts from our trip and had it converted into a quilt...looks nice.

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