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Delivery from Indonesia: A taste of home.

Novita’s wonderful sister, Nana, just arrived at 5:30am this morning from Jakarta. She’ll stay with us for three weeks, relaxing and hopefully exploring more of Manila and the Philippines. We have a vacation coming up for 9 days at the end of October; still undecided where we may go. Not only did she bring Novita a cure for homesickness (herself) – she brought a ton of spices, sambal, and Indonesian food! In fact, she brought so much, she was chargedRead more
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Taxis in Manila – why we need a car (aka white whine)

We’ve decided that we need a car in Manila. As metropolitan and accessible this city is, we’re feeling confined and limited in our options with using taxis. Many expats don’t feel a car is necessary, or even desired when taxis are such an easy part of getting around. I beg to differ. The last straw came yesterday when, after waiting for 30 minutes in a taxi stand line, we hopped into a run down taxi, exhausted from carrying 70lbs ofRead more
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R.I.P. Puma

Last weekend, Novita went outside to unlock the gate and found our little Pomeranian dead. There was no obvious cause of death, so we’ll never know. He was less than three years old and despite the jokes from my friends about him being smaller than a cat, was quite the happy little dog. I’ve never been a small dog kinda guy, but Puma was the most likable of any I’ve seen. I feel terrible that Novita had to find him;Read more