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My ultimate travel goal is to do it like we did in the US when we did road trips. ALONE! Chona's family is great, but paying for their little vacations to come along with us every time... Frustrating.

Pathetic

Yep, it's the return trip for part 2 of my 13a visa process. "The Interview" with Philippine Immigration's.

Yes, they were really crushing it! 🤣🤣🤣

I'm in the correct corner of the Philippines for rain.

The market's are easy to navigate. They're all pretty much just squares, and all you have to do is remember which side you came into it from. With some it's the smell more than the visual that is the most over powering. That one in Hilongos almost didn't smell bad at all, compared to others.

Now to just not do a damned thing on my actual birthday! 👍

@@jes2731 hahaha…. Take a long walk away from everyone…. Lock yourself in a room…. Ride your scooter far away from everyone…. Get creative…. Love….

We have to hit Maasin monthly because it's the closest RCBC bank that our Hilux payment is deducted from.

Well they are all pretty much related one way or another for the most part, so...

There was some sort of graduation party, so says Chona, the second evening, and the parking lot was packed when we came back from dinner.

Will do.

Just be ready to sit around for almost a half hour.

I hope you tipped them good!

@@jes2731 of course…. $40 on a $115 service

Hello neighbor! We've passed by there many times. Balsa Cafe is one of my wife's close favorite stops to eat.

Mother Nature is BRUTAL on structures here, especially when left wide open to her for years. That house was built after 2000, but I don't know when, so I'm guessing it's less than 20 years old. That and most of the construction "techniques" were more in the sub-standard range. Done for cost savings, but that also lead to its deterioration that much faster.

...oh, and it was one of Chona's aunts house. She passed away a few years ago do to Type-2 related issues, and her husband Rojilio (Roger) still lives in the Manila/Taguig area where they had been for decades.

Still a work in progress, but as long as Chona's not complaining, it'll get done when it gets done. 👍

Thank you, but just a little FYI. I’m retired and not looking to spin up a new 9-to-5. I post these to mainly give friends and family back states side little views of what it’s like here in the Philippines, especially our life, and especially for my father. I’m not doing this to build a channel, get lots of subscribers and make some ball-and-chain job of this. My videos are unedited cuts that if not taken in one shot, are spliced together as is and posted. ...and I will never be giving advise on any topic of any kind. !!!-MABUHAY-!!!

@@jes2731 I live in the Philippines and I like your content. I have not lived here long. Your video was very informative and I appreciate your content. I am just looking at ideas that are economically feasible for me. I hope you don’t mind me watching and getting ideas that work for my situation. So many other CZcams channels post things that have little to do with real life.

@@jamesshomesolarmore2223 By all means, be my guest. My wife of almost 33 years and I have been working for this retirement goal for years.

@@jes2731 thank you very much

Sogod, Southern Leyte, in the East Visayas.

She's a little nervous behind the wheel, because it isn't anything like driving back in the states, and the Hilux is a bit wider and longer than her Xterra, but she does good! The East Visayas, where we're at has actually been cooler that like up in the Manila area, running 40-45C regularly these past few weeks, and the same to the west on the Palawan island. At least summer is coming to an end and we should see a nice little daily drop in temperature the closer we get to your Summer Solstice. It's already a little weird seeing the sun move so far into the northern sky, and June 20th is still 5 weeks away. I'm definitely doing a "High Noon" video then to show how north the sun is then.

Less than 15 minutes from the house, and almost a third of that time is just getting out of the barrio, being that we're about 2 KM (1.26 mi.) in from the highway.

All those build videos got my dad hooked, and if I don't toss something out occasionally, I get reminder notes. 🤪

WD-40, Check! No, no carpet anywhere. Chona will throw down some floor mats and maybe an area rug or two. Yes, a safer 3 stair step is part of the office woodwork coming. 👍

Thanks, but they're more for family and friends that are interested in what life is like here in the Philippines. I'm not doing this to build a channel or a hoard of subscribers. Now that construction is done, there won't be any scheduled uploading of videos, and the quality will never improve. I'm retired and running a CZcams channel is to much like work. 🌴🌴😎🌴🌴

It encompasses the closet and my office, we'll never close the door to it. Some climate control is going to be required for all the damned purses she has. Otherwise they'll all rot away over time. In just these six months and the two they were in transit, she already has a few showing signs of degradation, because of where they were being stored.

Thanks! It is very Family & Friends friendly, just how we like it.

At least the few that Chona wants done are tiny by comparison.

It was a gorgeous day, and not one sound of karaoke the whole day.

Chona's closet is priority, and getting the AC units installed so we can migrate upstairs.

...and that's also why, in my mind, we can never move somewhere else. Chona needs all these people in her day to day life. If we were to find land somewhere else and build a house, she wouldn't have what she needs the most. This depth of trusted family and friends.

@@jes2731 spoken like a loving husband. 🙂

@@microtroy01 Happy Wife, Happy Life! Coming up on #33 this year, and we're still happy!

Thanks!