I hear this question all the time! “Sir, where are you from?” I’ll reply that I am from the United States, and even tell the person asking that I have lived here for 8 years already. It never fails, though, the next question is always “Sir, when are you going home?” My response to that […]
Domestic Travel in the Philippines
Domestic travel to different parts of the Philippines can be quite an adventure. Whether you will be flying, taking a boat, or riding on a tricycle or a “skylab” – you can bet it won’t be quite the same as what you are accustomed to! What’s a skylab, by the way? Well, it’s a motorcycle […]
A nice trip last Friday
Last Friday, Feyma, the kids and I all took a drive down south to General Santos City. For anybody who has been following this site, you will know that we lived in GenSan, as it is affectionately called, back from 2000 until 2002. We still go back from time to time, but not too often […]
My contribution to Philippine Society!
I first started coming to visit the Philippines in the year 1990. I came back for visits many times during the 90’s, before finally settling here permanently in 2000. My goodness how things have changed in that short amount of time! I have witnessed the part of the country where I live move from mostly […]
Tourism and Davao City
When I decided to write a series of articles about Tourism in the Philippines, the whole idea was sparked when I did some research on the Web to answer a tourism question that I received from a reader of one of my blogs. I didn’t know the answer to his question, so I started looking […]
What kind of tourists are visiting the Philippines?
Are tourists coming to the Philippines to visit? Not many, unfortunately. And, do you know what? There are a lot fewer “tourists” coming here than statistics will say. Why? Well, let’s take a look and you be the judge. At this time, there are more than 11 Million Filipinos working overseas (OFW’s or Overseas Filipino […]