When we arrived in Manila I thought we'd left Asia: Everyone speaks English (American occupation lasted about 90 years), the names of the towns, streets, people, and money are all in Spanish (Spanish colonialism lasted over 300 years), and there are churches everywhere instead of Buddhist/Hindu temples. People are super nice and very polite. They manage to get a sir or ma'am into every sentence. The ma'am sounds more like "mom" which always makes Toby laugh because I am the last person on the planet to want to be a mom (unless we're talking about a dog.) We toured around Manila and then headed to the southern tip of Luzon which is the main island of the Philippines. In a small town called Donsol we went out on a boat to hopefully have a chance to
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