“Thank you, come again. This is a beautiful place.”
Quote attributed to the man above who was in a hole over his head that he had shoveled out. The sides of the hole were actually the walls of his wood frame house supported on the outside by 2+ meters of volcanic ash (lahar). He had removed the roof and was probing for his buried possessions (imagine an archaeological excavation site). We were surrounded by a desert of black and gray lahar and scattered boulders, accented by wind ravaged coconut trees, crystal clear blue skies, and the looming volcano Mayon. Considering what he said, we laughed…….and cried.
