Pdevine’s Weblog

Picture this: 5 am, with sunrise Japan not due for another hour – three intrepid adventurers (Melinda from Colorado, Will from Georgia, and the old man from Maine, venture forth through the  deserted streets of Takeo to the overgrown stone staircase we had spied the day before.  Armed only with an earthquake flashlight from the hotel, facing rumors of wild boar, stinging centipedes and small poisonous snakes with triangular heads, we have a deadline of 7:20 to be on the bus to the elementary school….which we don’t want to miss.

The stairs are steep, endless, covered with leaves and are crumbling from age.  Does that slow us down?  No way intrepid adventurers……but the spiders do…..yes my friends, huge tropical spiders have stretched their snares across the path, and we are easy victims of their webs…..yuck!  To make a sweaty, breathless task shorter – we made it…..and what a reward – sunrise over Takeo.  Awesome, and we even made it back in time for a shower – running pell mell through the streets to get back in the nick of time.

Will and Takeo Sunrise

Takeo at Daybreak