<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588435.post-5740765483504019737</id><published>2009-09-02T22:35:00.010+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T10:53:01.000+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Maiden Voyage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6F5oIUB7I/AAAAAAAAAbc/7ZyAAys8ilg/s1600-h/20080921132317.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6F5oIUB7I/AAAAAAAAAbc/7ZyAAys8ilg/s400/20080921132317.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376882230198273970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="BLOCKNOTE.NET"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;style&gt;BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } &lt;/style&gt;&lt;basefont   style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="BLOCKNOTE.NET"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;style&gt;BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } &lt;/style&gt;&lt;basefont style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://blog.elacson.com/2009/06/voyage-of-balangay.html"&gt;Balangay Expedition Team&lt;/a&gt; left Manila yesterday for the first leg of their journey that will take them from Manila to Puerto Gallera, stopping by five waypoints along the coastline of Cavite and Batangas. As soon as they left, I rode with the advance party to the first waypoint at Sangley Naval Base in Cavite City. The team arrived four hours later and was welcomed by a full brass band, officers of the Philippine Navy and children from the local school.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6D7disvBI/AAAAAAAAAbU/-pbIVinZuEU/s1600-h/20080921173543.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6D7disvBI/AAAAAAAAAbU/-pbIVinZuEU/s400/20080921173543.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376880062692637714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DV-QuajI/AAAAAAAAAbM/QRdu1bMuDG0/s1600-h/20080921173834.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DV-QuajI/AAAAAAAAAbM/QRdu1bMuDG0/s400/20080921173834.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376879418640591410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DVT7DIXI/AAAAAAAAAbE/I20wIsF60JU/s1600-h/20080921174218.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DVT7DIXI/AAAAAAAAAbE/I20wIsF60JU/s400/20080921174218.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376879407275385202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DU9FiekI/AAAAAAAAAa8/FLoVcZpaD3c/s1600-h/20080921174443.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DU9FiekI/AAAAAAAAAa8/FLoVcZpaD3c/s400/20080921174443.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376879401145367106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="BLOCKNOTE.NET"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;style&gt;BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } &lt;/style&gt;&lt;basefont style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DUSWOwFI/AAAAAAAAAa0/Q8RqXXr7TsI/s1600-h/20080921174600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DUSWOwFI/AAAAAAAAAa0/Q8RqXXr7TsI/s400/20080921174600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376879389672652882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DUDw9NJI/AAAAAAAAAas/Np9OI3Ujq4M/s1600-h/20080921174823.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6DUDw9NJI/AAAAAAAAAas/Np9OI3Ujq4M/s400/20080921174823.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376879385758217362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The team stayed for an hour before they continued sailing to the next waypoint in Ternate, Cavite. I headed back to Manila after I saw them leave Sangley. I will meet up with them  in Calatagan on Saturday and follow the journey to Puerto Gallera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6C69dKQ7I/AAAAAAAAAak/yjMIDwL-2EE/s1600-h/20080921184316.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6C69dKQ7I/AAAAAAAAAak/yjMIDwL-2EE/s400/20080921184316.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376878954567844786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5588435-5740765483504019737?l=blog.elacson.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.elacson.com/feeds/5740765483504019737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5588435&amp;postID=5740765483504019737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5588435/posts/default/5740765483504019737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5588435/posts/default/5740765483504019737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.elacson.com/2009/09/maiden-voyage.html' title='Maiden Voyage'/><author><name>Erik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01073624168812355413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08976165026955146587'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ueW3VrVAL0U/Sp6F5oIUB7I/AAAAAAAAAbc/7ZyAAys8ilg/s72-c/20080921132317.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>