Left AirBnB way to early in the morning but with Manila traffic? Better up leave early than get such in a jam of unmoving vehicles.Got to the airport on time but the gate really had me surprised. I was at gate 12 which is fine but the gates were numbered and 12 was missing. It went 11, 14, 15... Then I found out it was ground level and bus took us to the plane

Today I walked to the wet market in the morning. I wanted to do some shopping, well, check prices on local ingredients actually to at how expensive food is.It is really crowded and getting good images is difficult but. So many items there from fruits and vegetables, chicken, pork, beef, seafood, grains and more

Today I flew to Manila.The goal? get the ball rolling to get nitrate testing for my pumpwell.On the plus side I got upgraded to an exit row. Awesome. But honestly I didn't do much today. Settled into my AirBnB and then checked out the surrounding area. Went shopping for some groceries.

No water - no lifeThat's what my father taught me many many years ago. I'm pretty sure those words still hold. Now I'm still getting my steps going back and forth to the home in trying to prepare. It's slow going as the workers didn't come today. Other commitments.

Okay I'm in the Philippines and where I'm at the water supply is limited to sat the least. We get running water maybe 4 hours a day. I hear it's usually 8 but I think a pipe broke. Anyways the place in building doesn't have running water it's jump a manual pumpwell... At least for now. And only solar electricity.

I seriously need a shave. It is so itchy. But I didn't come up the Philippines with a shaver I thought I would just order one on lazada and no problem. Here is the problem. Everything else I ordered at the same time had already come.. it's been 10 days and still no shaver. Ugh.