This is going to be a three-part series, but I’m not going to submit them in a row, I’m going to stagger them, the reason is that even I get bored with the same thing for three weeks in a row so why wouldn’t our readers? Five years ago under a previous administration when I […]
Calendars and Clocks and Other Useless Stuff
There was a time in my life when my daily activity was ruled by clocks and calendars. This was I had assumed is normal until I retired from the Navy in 1986 down in Puerto Rico that was when I realized just how much calendars and clocks had controlled my life. The following day (Post-retirement) […]
Questions Galore from Viewers
It’s another episode of the Expat Answerman Video Cast today! No monologue today, I have several viewer questions that I want to address! We start out today’s show with a question from an anonymous reader! He is wondering about bringing a laptop or other electronic device to the Philippines. The difference in voltage concerns him […]
Let There Be Light
In 1999 my house was completed on a mountain in Bataan, and we moved in. I was heading to San Francisco to be assigned to a new ship. The USNS San Jose (T-AFS) which was tied up in Singapore so I had to fly back across the Pacific to SFO and back to Singapore all […]
American Battleground Monuments Commission
I recently learned some things from a friend that surprised me. The things my friend told me were actually the exact opposite of what I had been told by others. I had heard for years that several Cemeteries for American Veterans in the Philippines had been abandoned by the US Government and had no funding […]
Life; I Never planned it, just lived it!
Or Why I live in the Tropics! Long pants are not needed very often. Long Sleeved Shirts, I don’t own any. I’ve not had a pair of socks on since 1986. The last time I was cold, I only had to adjust the Air/Con. Somehow the Navy found out about my aversion to the cold […]