Which Company has the best shipping? Amazon vs. Walmart.com Back when we first moved back to the States, I ordered a lot of what we needed through eCommerce. The reason was that at that time we did not have a car! I was on foot, and walking to the store was a bit of a […]
Nine Months In
I’ve been living back in the States for 9 months Where do things stand? After living for nearly 2 decades in the Philippines, I arrived back in the USA on January 17, 2019 along with my wife and one of my sons. The other two sons had already been living in the States before we […]
Reverse Culture Shock
I was expecting reverse culture shock It didn’t happen, until… About a year ago when Feyma and I decided that we would move back to the United States, she told me that I might have a hard time adjusting to life in the USA, after being gone for so long. We were not overly worried […]
USA vs. Philippines: Cats
T Today we adopted a cat Her name is Blaze I’ve always been a cat guy. Dogs? Well, they are OK, but I can take them or leave them. But, I always feel that I need to have a cat. At times, while living in the Philippines, we had as many as 4 cats or […]
USA vs. Philippines: Roads
Of course, the roads in the US are better! Aren’t they? Of course, the vast majority of people would say or think that the roads in the USA are vastly superior to the roads in the Philippines. But, are they? What people think is not always true. Especially when the people doing the thinking have […]
USA vs. Philippines
Is the USA better than the Philippines? If so, is it true in every respect? On my other blog, Live in the Philippines, We had a rather extensive series of articles based on the theme “Philippines vs. USA”. This series of articles got started when one of the semi-regular writers there, Jay Stainback, wrote a […]