If you are looking for my son's blog, please be patient. Google and/or Blogger abruptly, without warning, deleted it today, and we are trying to figure out why and trying get it back. He's really sad. He's put a lot of hard work into his blog, and appreciates all of his readers. He hopes that if he gets his blog back, you will all come back too.
Monday was President's Day, and Rob had the day off from work. I'm so glad because I wasn't feeling sick at all. We decided to drive around the southern half of the island. Last time we tried to do this, it was a very raining day, but today the weather was perfect, sunny and warm with fluffy white clouds. Our first stop was Umatac, an interesting village full of history. In the local language, it is spelled Humatak. Ferdinand Magellan and his sailors brought first European contact to the island in 1521. It is thought they landed in Umatac Bay, but I just learned in further reading that the site is disputed, and might have been further north. I wish I could say that this is a good story, but it leaves me very disturbed. There was thievery, fighting, killing and burning of the settlement, not so different from stories of first visits in other places around the world. It wasn't mentioned in the article, but I'm guessing that the...
Oh, i am sorry! i did read his blog...let me know when it is back up!
ReplyDeleteI hope Google gets it figured out. How sad to loose all that work! Other friends have had this happen as well, and over time their blogs have reappeared. Hopefully dear son's will as well.
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