The great thing about traveling is you experience the local lifestyle.  Just keep on walking and walking and you will enter side streets.  Sometimes a little scary but you just have to be vigilant.  Keep your phone in your pocket, don’t wear expensive jewelry, and just try to blend in.  Most places I go, everybody’s trying to speak to me in the Filipino language.  That means I’m doing a good job blending in.  Haha.  If I had blonde hair and blue eyes, I’d never enter the dark streets late a night.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are my normal walking days in Hawaii.  I’ll be lucky to take 200 steps.  Saturday I was walking mostly through airports.  Sunday was my first full day in the Philippines.  17,402 step is my lifetime record for a day.

Knowing you can find a 90 minute massage everywhere you go helps.  At just $15, you can get one everyday.  Then get ready for many more steps to come.  

Enough airplanes and transits for me.  I don’t want to go anywhere anytime soon.  

I had a great trip but the only stress I had was getting stuck in Guam.

Here is Kimura-san years ago surfing his favorite spot Medewi.  Speaking about Medewi, I just read an article that the Medewi locals made a new rule.  They no longer allow beginners in the lineup unless you’re with a surf guide.  That’s a great idea!  So now you have Cloud 9 in the Philippines, and Medewi in Indonesia.  Where’s next?

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Good morning 4:30am.
North shore 3-5′ and good.
Ala Moana waist high and clean.
Diamond Head chest high and bumpy.
Trade winds at 25mph.
Sunny and warm.
Going to the sea.
Have a wonderful day!

I haven’t been back to Cebu in 20 years so it was interesting to see all the changes.  They built this huge shopping mall in the middle of the city.  Pretty cool to see but as soon as you step out of the mall, you return to the low income Philippines lifestyle.  I just wonder how many people had to give up their land for them to build this mall.  And I heard a lot more is coming soon.  Anyway, if you like the shopping mall lifestyle, this mall is definitely one of the biggest in the world.  I don’t like malls so I spent most of my time exploring the back streets.  

The first 2 days were cloudy and raining.  There were some villages that totally flooded in Cebu.  Then I get the Red Alert of this next storm coming.  I booked my flight, got my last massage, and headed to the airport for the long way home.

If you fly Cebu Pacific airlines, expect cancellations and delays.  Being on time is unheard of.  And if you ever plan to fly to the Philippines from Hawaii, do not take the United Airlines flight that transfers in Guam.  There is only a 50 minute layover going and coming back to if your flight is delayed, expect to spend 24 hours in Guam.  And if your flight is on time, expect to run to your next boarding gate.  It’s not worth the stress at all.  Next time I’ll transit in Japan because getting stuck in Japan is a pleasure.  Safe travels…