Friday, October 19, 2012

Day 1: An Illustrated Journey To The Philippines.

Someone at LAX took the payphone scene from Goodfellas in which DeNiro finds out Pesci got whacked and ran with it.

Thank you, science: Cathay-Pacific offers a wild wheel’s-eye from your seat’s monitor. That’s us making our descent into Manila.

Shout-out to our cabbie for covering up his B.O. with the refreshing scent of home.

View from my hotel room. I expected dirt roads and oxen-drawn plows, but instead got six – yes, six – malls crowded into one block.

Just as I began to miss Ricky’s kisses, Sheena, my hotel’s bomb-sniffing dog, was happy to oblige.