The scooter wasn’t even running when I backed it up and locked the front wheel, spilling me to the side and landing the right foot peg and nearly the entire weight of the scooter on my heel, just below my ankle. I thought it was a sprain. Back in grade school I played basketball, baseball, [...]
On Tuesday, February 19, 2007, I got my first driving ticket in The Philippines for going the wrong way down a one-way street. While in American, this would seem pretty stupid as one-way streets are pretty clearly marked with large ONE-WAY arrow signs, the same is not true here and you see cars, scooters and [...]
…and on just about everything else. More than a year ago Cagayan de Oro Mayor Tinnex Jaraula, then a congressman, sought and got approval for a refurbishment/resurfacing of Velez Street, which is the main North-South Street going through town. The Street actually belongs to the national government so repairs to this street cannot be authorized [...]
I’ll post more photos of it later but you can see at a previous post, 2007 Honda Wave 125. It has just over 6000 km on it. Has had all Honda servicing. It has been garage kept and only ridden in the rain, but never left out in the rain. It has never been dropped [...]
Emotion electric scooters are on their way to Cagayan de Oro. I rode one of these the other day and it drove just like a regular scooter, except that it was almost totally silent. See that small chrome cylinder on the rear wheel with the red end? That’s the electric motor that powers these bikes. [...]
It appears that progress on the 5th bridge to cross the Cagayan de Oro River has been stalled. Originally with a completion date of August 2, 2007, there is now no projected completion date. Something about “right-of-way issues”. The bridge crosses from Nazareth to Carmen. In the above photo it appears almost as if the [...]
Maria Teresa Libres is a social worker who works in Conception, and she was our guide to the village. After we arrived, I met the Mayor of Conception, Ben Pilota, and the major’s wife treated us to lunch. I ate some kind of fresh water snail there. Watch the video, below to see me eat [...]
After driving the smooth and well-laid asphalt road from Oroquieta to Sampang Dalaga, we turned off onto the road to Conception. The Village of Conception was a forgotten place and only taken under Provencial and National attention about 50 years ago. Teresa tells me the village is about 80% tribal, even though they wear western [...]
On the way to the village of Conception, after staying the night at Rhovics Beach Resort in Oroquieta, Misamis Occidental, we drove a fine asphault highway for nearly an hour before turning off at Sapang Dalaga, onto the rough-road that would take us 18 kilometers up the moutain to the village of Conception. This is [...]
On September 25, 2007, Marissa, my wife, and Tom Fagan, set out for the tribal village of Conception, in the Province of Misamis Occidental, Region 10, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. I had previously been warned by my attorney, Joe Pallugna, not to go to this village under any circumstances. However, we went anyway. On that [...]