http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao Haven't got a job, have you Phil? Thu, 08 May 2008 09:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's 2:30 in the morning. I'm in a hospital waiting room with my mom curled up next to me. Dad's down the hall getting a cat scan. He's having abdominal pain. They said they think it's gastritis, whatever that is. Sounds like an easy sort of sickness you get from ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/hospitals.html hi from london! as you know, the blog slowed to a crawl last year and then stopped altogether about six months ago. a lot's happened, and it's time i wrote it down. at the last post, roxanne and i had just taken a boat trip from panama to colombia and were ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/taking-joblessness-to-new-heights.html Two weeks ago I arrived in Panama City, the average backpacker's southernmost stop in North America. To go further south would take you to Darién, the Panamanian province that borders Colombia. It's an area of dense jungle with no roads for thirty miles. Infested with fer de lance snakes and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/our-friends-are-all-aboard.html i've had a lot of adventures lately. roxanne and i were in roatan to meet up with her brother for a week. roatan's nice. i'm an advanced diver now. certified. 30 meters pal. did you drop your glasses in 30m of water? need somebody to get that for you? i'm ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/this-is-what-happened-in-may.html   ok ok i know i'm travel blogging but i found a good picture and i have to share it. this is richie. richie is special and lives in chicago. we bought matching reebok classics one time at meijer because they had them 2-for-1. the picture is inside a gymnastics gym in coal city. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/this-is-richie.html Long time no posting, right? Last time I posted I was in Guatemala. I spent close to a month there and had lots of adventures. After a month of circling the country, I settled in Antigua for a few days to take some Spanish lessons and look for volunteer opportunities. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/mauro-soldado-de-la-fortuna.html "if you're in the market for a new baby, i hear guatemala has good ones." mike and jenny said "OK, sounds good," filled out a bunch of paperwork, and came down here last week to pick up wil. i'm sorry to say it, but that's more or less all i ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/16.html last post was from flores, guatemala. this one's from flores too. i just made an enormous circle. palenque was great. the jungle is full of mosquitoes and hippies. the ruins are full of french tourists. took conni back to cancun and now she's back in ohio for six more weeks before ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/15.html holy crap we did so much diving! i found out that yellowfins are really beautiful, curious, brave, and confident fish. too bad for them they taste amazing. i saw a ray, a lobster, lots of pretty stuff, some dolphins, and SHARKS. they were nurse sharks. they were as big as ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/worst-currency-ever-challenge-2007.html somehow it feels like there was a time when i was blogging every time i got to a new city. that might have only been four or five cities, but i'm pretty sure it happened. this time i've been to i think six places that i didn't write about. this ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/phillipao/arrrright.html