Posted on 03/16/2024 5:24:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan
I remember Human Resources leaving tickets on my desk in a brown envelope.
Oh— you visited my gf’s home country. But I’m guessing not Mindanao where she is from.
” I can often find my correct direction without a map, so I might have an internal compass somehow. “
I’m like that, too, but it doesn’t work as well when I’m with other people.
But alone — almost mystical. I remember as a 16 or 17 year old — two separate trips — getting off subways in London and Mexico City at the wrong stops, then making my way back on surface streets although it wasn’t straightforward at all and I couldn’t remember the name of where I was going. And back in time for dinner!
Just north of Mindanao on a tiny Island call “Nonoc Island.” There was a big nickel mine there. When I was there in ‘77, Mindanao was full of Maoists and commies. We were told it wasn’t a safe place to travel.
That’s still the case for western Mindanao. But on the eastern side (Davao and Davao City where both my GF and her friend the VP of the Philippines Sara Duterte are from), people can go their whole lives without encountering any sort of terroristic incident or serious crime.
Maybe a small chance I will end up there someday if things really deteriorate here. She still has a house there and relatives.
I wasn’t there long (bit less than a month), but really enjoyed my time there. Great people and just beautiful.
But you can just wait a few years until all the ice disappears from the Arctic. At least the experts say it will.
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