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Uintah Fourth
To celebrate the Fourth of July we headed east to the cooler temperatures and magnificent scenery of Utah's Uintah Mountains--the only major east-west mountain range in the USA. Our neighbors the...
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Taman Mini Indonesia Indah
 We arrived in Jakarta at 1:00 am Friday morning—late one hour due to a departure delay while sitting on the tarmac in Tokyo caused by a typhoon near Taiwan. We didn’t get to our hotel until after...
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Back to Krakatoa
Ron Harris (right) and Subandriyo.Sunday July 10th I skipped going to the 8:00 am English LDS Ward with most of the group so I could attend the 10:00 Indonesian speaking Jakarta Ward. In Sunday School...
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Pelabuhan Ratu
Our research this year is focused on three cities on the south coast of Java--which parallels the deep Java Trench. The first city is Pelabuhanratu--harbor of the queen. On our way south through the...
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Pangandaran
Rest stop on the south java coast.On Wednesday July 20th we left early for the long drive from Pelabuhan Ratu to Pangandaran. The main route goes through Bandung, but there had been talk of taking the...
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Jogjakarta
Our hosts and colleagues for our tsunami project are the geology faculty and students from Universitas Pembangunan National (UPN)--National Development University in Jogjakarta. For our first day in...
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Pacitan
The south Java coastal town of Pacitan was the most impressive of the three cities we worked in in terms of local efforts and successes. The local BPBD had set up 3-4 presentations every day to...
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Bromo
Originally we had planned to leave Pacitan early on the the 3rd so that we could stop at the hot mud flow at Sidoarjo and then drive on to Mt. Bromo (two places geologists would love). But BPBD...
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Bali
We left the high cool elevation of Bromo after noon--clouds had rolled in. By now the running joke of our travel was that answers to questions about how much longer with answers based on estimates by...
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They grow up
Today Sarah checked into May Hall--easternmost of Helaman Halls. She is rooming with her cousin Lucie and there are several Springville High friends up and down her third floor hallway. Lucie traveled...
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Hiking Mt. Timpanogos
Mt. Timpanogos from Pleasant Grove. Saturday September 3rd after our hike. From the south with Payson in the foreground.From the southwest side of Utah Lake. Just to the left (north) of the tallest...
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Wonderful
I did it again. My voice cracked, tears welled up and I had to take deep breaths to keep reading. It has happened before when I have read the Bronze Bow or Where the Red Fern Grows to my kids and it...
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FGM and Mormons
Last month an article I wrote about female genital mutilation (aka as female genital cutting or female circumcision) and Mormons was published in an on-line journal called Square Two which deals with...
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A Warm Fall
It's been an unseasonably warm fall. That means the dozens of soccer games we attended were mostly pleasant weather wise and often with spectacular mountain backdrops. Given a rearrangement of soccer...
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Over the Rivers...
For Thanksgiving this year we decided to go over the rivers and through the woods to visit Marie's sister Jeanne and her family in Redmond Washington. To do so I finally gave in and decided not to hold...
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Walnuts: Candied and for the Birds
Eighteen years ago I planted a walnut tree in our back yard.This year it gave us its most bountiful crop, even with the loss of one of its main branches to a wind storm this past summer. The remaining...
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Outward Appearances
"But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance,...
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December Doings
12th birthday.Post movie (Back to the Future) entertainment: ping pong, bongo board, player piano and FIFA 17 on the X-Box.Re-purposing disgarded maps from the BYU map library.Christmas outings: BYU...
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Bluebells for Kaye
Today I attended the memorial service for Kaye Francis Larsen. Kaye was not one of the many notables who have departed this earth in the past few weeks. She was just an unlikely friend. Unlikely in...
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