Scott’s Adventures in Philippines
Smoke Signals smoke works wonders
There are fires burning in Mogpog. They are kept simmering all day and into the night, started with the skins of coconuts peeled and shredded to make tinder, reinforced with dead coconut tree trunks, branches too small to be used for anything else. You...
Piggy goes to market business is business
Pigs are popular on Marinduque. They are particularly popular for large family get together's and celebrations. Like Ecuadorians and Mexicans, Philipino's like pork and many households have a pig or two staked out in back yard mud holes. On this day, the...
Rice and Coconuts staples
Rice is a staple. The rice plant grows about a foot high and then men with machetes separate the part of the plant with rice grains from the rest of it. The rice grains are shaken from the leaves, gathered, then laid out in the sun on mats to dry in the...
Thrilla in Manilla hitting the ground running
In a world of nearly eight billion people, and growing, we often have to wait our turn. On a Tokyo runway, our jet backs away from its boarding dock, follows air traffic control orders, gets in line with a string of jumbo jets to take off for Manilla....
Coffee Table Books Another world
In the universe of coffee table books, there must be one about airports of the world. The intrepid author would have traveled to major airports of the world, taken photographs, picked images that best describe the country visited. The Denver airport has...
Where Do You Sleep in an Airport? Travel Portals
Airports are portals to the world. The Denver International Airport was built in cow pastures to the east of Denver, after Stapleton closed, and was turned into condos. To fly out of Denver you follow I-70 east till you see white sails in the country,...
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