I admit it.  I’m a Parrothead.  Big time. Oh wait… some of you are asking… what the heck is a “parrothead?” Well, a Parrothead is a fan of Jimmy Buffett.  For the uninitiated, Jimmy Buffet is an American Singer.  His music is hard to categorize.  It is not quite rock.  It’s not quite country.  It’s somewhere in between the two.  Jimmy Buffett primarily sings island style music.  He is a man who loves the tropics.  He sails boats.  He flies a sea plane.  He parties a lot, or used to when he was younger.  A lot of Jimmy’s songs really sound a lot like the life that I lead here in the … [Read more...]

As you may recall, last week, on Feyma and my 20th Wedding Anniversary, we took a trip to Samal Island for the day.  It was a nice day, as I told about in my article last week. Something unexpected happened, though, on the way home. When we arrived at the Ferry terminal for the boat ride back to the City, there were a lot of cars waiting.  I told Feyma that we would be lucky if we were to make it on to the next Ferry, and that we would likely have to wait until the following Ferry, because the first one would likely be full.  Sure enough, I was correct in my assessment.  We almost made it, but when the Ferry was full there was us and one … [Read more...]

Lately, I have been writing regularly about tourism in the Philippines, and the reasons why it is not working.  Or, let me say, I have been writing about apparent reasons why tourism is not working here.  Two weeks ago, I posted about a new tourism slogan that the Philippine Department of Tourism had some out with called PKG, or Pilipinas Kay Ganda.  The whole launching of the new tourism campaign was riddled with problems, and in the end, the Department of Tourism ditched the new campaign.  They currently are working on an entirely new campaign and slogan for Philippine Tourism. Some may argue that I am wrong to say that Philippine … [Read more...]