Musings from Manila

[...] The book Musings from Manila: a Philippine Photo Odyssey is now available! Just click here to preview and buy [...]

[...] to be fascinating. It is even more so at night than during the day. These are both in the book Musings from Manila! [...]

[...] Eternal Flame of Freedom: One of the two 12-inch "disappearing" seacoast guns of Battery Crockett: You can read around the barrel that this 45 ton gun was manufactured by the Bethlehem Steel [...]

[...] retailer is America's WalMart. I wonder if that was the inspiration for the Philippines' Walter Mart? Yes, Walter Mart. It isn't so much a retailer as it is another mall concept, smaller in scale [...]

[...] The book Musings from Manila: a Philippine Photo Odyssey is now available! Just click here to preview and buy the book! The book contains over [...]

[...] for our move to our new place and decided we'll have to get ourselves some of their Lined Makati Baskets: They're now on sale for $19.99 - 29.99. Perhaps these will remind us of Makati?? Doubtful. [...]

[...] and its extensive ethnic foods section were our only options until now. Like US and Cincinnati foods are comfort foods for me when overseas, things like mangoes are comfort food to me [...]

[...] , or just new to Cincinnati, but we are excited to finally see it on the shelves: Sunsweet Dried Philippine Mangoes - so delicious, and until now, Philippine dried mangoes had been such a pain to get. [...]

[...] for us; and that or a trip to the even more remote Jungle Jim's grocery and its extensive ethnic foods section were our only options until now. Like US and Cincinnati foods are comfort foods for [...]

[...] up the last two and a half years of our lives: A final trip to the University of the Philippines Campus with Edson. For a change, the weather wasn't unbearably hot there: And finally, a sight of [...]