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 [...]
After my hit-and-run accident with a Kia 2700 that was driven by an unlicensed security guard working for Kia motors, and my agreement with Kia Motors of Cagayan de Oro City that they would fix the damage to my vehicle at no charge to me, and waiting for the August holidays to pass, inclucing the [...]
It took seven firing competitions on seven consecutive weekends to get a trophy, but now I have one and it’s not 1st or 2nd Runner-Up, but Champion Regular Shooter Single Stack Standard Division. Most of the PNP (Philippine National Police), soldiers, and ROs (Range Officers) that regularly attend these events know me by now. So [...]
A pole that looks like this is a common site in Cagayan de Oro and other cities in The Philippines. I’ve linked the image above to a 1600 x 1200 pixel version of it. Click the image to see the detail.
When I first came to The Philippines in 2004 I swore to myself I would never drive here, relegating myself into the service of taxis, jeepneys, motorelas, and the occasional tricyle, forever. However, on my third trip to The Philippines, after spending several months here, and noting that I was spending around PHP 10,000 (about [...]
I have been looking into buying a car and/or a motorcycle here and I in doing so I have investigated available financing options. For automobiles the standard rate is called “12%, but it’s really not 12%. If I borrowed PHP 100,000 at 12% annual interest, then in one year I would make a single payment [...]
A bunch of HarvestSEO employees, friends, and family went whitewater rafting on the Cagayan de Oro River on Sunday, December 10, 2006. We all got very wet but had a great time.