I made the snap decision to head for the Guiuan peninsula on Samar before heading south and eventually out of the Philippines. I had a vague idea of going up the east coast of Samar ...

I did stay in Quinapondan to give my knee a chance to recover a bit. I had a pretty good day and a less than perfect night. The dreaded videoke horror reared its ugly head ...

I didn’t have a chance to see my hostess from the hotel of videoke horror before I left. As I went downstairs to take a shower in the common bathroom and such things, I had ...

Peaking out the window of my hotel room’s bathroom this morning, I was greeted with clear blue skies. That’s great after so much rain. However, as in life, the change in weather brings bad as ...

Two days have passed since I wrote about visiting Lourdes and Jessa on the Hollywood Jetty. The first day was spent on my bike exploring the area around Guiuan. My main reason for doing this ...

My goal for yesterday was to track down a place called Sapao. There is a nice picture of this place on the tourist brochure, and a number of people had asked if I’d been there ...

I had plans to leave Guiuan yesterday, but I woke up to rain and it continued to rain off and on all day. Today, the skies are clear and blue, so the plan is to ...

I don’t know where these moods come from, but as I left from Guiuan, I could feel that I was irritable. Perhaps it was because I left without breakfast. I had only a cup of ...

Yesterday was quite an unusual day weatherwise. It started off clear and beautiful. I grabbed my camera and walked down to the waterfront and along the river and nearby neighborhoods. I got some great pictures ...

I needn’t have worried about the clear skies disappearing yesterday. The skies stayed clear and blue and beautiful all day long. It was probably the nicest day I’ve had in the Philippines combined with some ...

It's 6:30 p.m., an unusual time for me to fire up the NEO, but I have been ambushed by the horror of the Philippines once more: karaoke. I don’t know how people in this country ...

It rained a great deal during the night and the morning sky looks grey and overcast in the narrow views I get from my windows. Not great prospects for the day, but the weather could ...