Today I interviewed more loan companies and cooperatives in the center of Tacloban. Although tedious, these surveys are accompanied by relatively little data entry, which meant that I had an hour free in the afternoon to climb nearby Cavalry Hill:
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| The view from the top, looking over Leyte |
The path up the hill is marked by the Stations of the Cross.
The island across the water is Samar, a lawless land full of bandits (according to my translators). Factoid: Tacloban suffers from a persistent shortage of coins because the only overland route from the mint passes through Samar and the treasury directors are unwilling to risk sending trucks that way.
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Not to be pedantic, but isn't it Calvary Hill ? Cavalry Hill would have statues of your great-grandfather's troops, and it's unlikely that they are building any statues for the US Cavalry's role in what his service medal calls the Phillipine Insurrection.
ReplyDeleteI learn something new every day!
ReplyDeleteI got your postcard, Kevin! Excellent pun-work!
ReplyDeleteI read some stuff about the New People's Army and Samar does sound dangerous. It's good to have guides who alert you to stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteIn reading about Samar, it looks like their first governor had the coolest name imaginable - Maximo Cinco