My winter days:

Family outing on the bay:



What is all this stuff???



My field assistant Boy works the crowd:



Right now I'm in Naga (you may want to consult Google Earth for this one) in a very spiffy coffee shop with free wireless (!!!), minimalist leather couches, Alicia Keys playing and sub-freezing air con. I might as well be in the USA. Except that outside, tricycles and jeepneys still rule supreme. All's going well and I'm having a really good time. How can it be otherwise, on a day when you got the honor of being the first white person a bunch of village children EVER saw?!?!