A Few More Photos...

Here are a few more photos from the past couple of weeks. My goal for next week is to get a few backpacking photos up, in case you're interested.

* On our way home from the beach, we came up on one of the Philippines' many motorized tricycles cruising down the highway. These are the bane of many drivers' existence, as their top speed seems to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 km/h, while our SUV tends to top out somewhat faster than that. While tricycles are usually used to transport people from one place to another, this one had a different sort of passenger. There are actually two pigs in there, if you look closely.

*Throughout Asia, it's not uncommon to see a nearly life-sized statue of ol' Colonel Sanders in front of the KFC outlets. (In Kofu, Japan, when I lived in Yamanashi, he tended to end up with a red-and-white Santa hat in December.) This KFC, at a mall in Las Pinas, substitutes a much-larger-than-life-sized chicken for the Colonel. Now, if I can just talk Shelly into going to that mall with me, I can get a picture of my chicken-industry wife posing with a giant chicken, which ought to earn her a promotion at work.

*See? She's proved that she's willing to do the pose, hanging out with Popeye at Green Hills. Now, to get her to visit the chicken...