What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why?
San Francisco. It’s a shit hole. If I want to see homeless,destruction, crime, shoplifting, human feces on the road, moral debauchery and the woke capital of the world, I just go to Portland.
The real question is why are there places like this? To keep all of the above there, instead of coming to my state and destroying it also.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Republika ng Pilipinas. Spent about 10 years there as both enlisted and officer . . . Cubi, Subic, San Miguel. Fond memories, good times . . . which I’ve no doubt edited, revised, embellished, and censored.
Today’s post-Pinatubo, post-USN, pushbutton society no longer has the places I remember, the people I knew, the life style I enjoyed.
If I did go back, I’d look for things which no longer exist, places which replaced what I knew, customs and traditions which are hard to find, panahon pa ni mahoma.
I’d be disappointed by not finding what my mind has constructed, and wiped out by the heat, the humidity, the hype, the hypocrisy.
No, if I do a balikbayan, it’ll be in my comfortably edited memory, not my octogenarian decrepit body.
Old-style Pinoy, he lob many t’eeng;
to lapp, to kry, to eat, and to seeng.
He lob too hees pam’ly ‘kos eet’s da main sors
ob de seenging an lapping an eating, ob kors.
You can espen many yirs an pine no better pren’
to gib you his welkom again and again.
But be kerpul to neber mek him peesed at you
or you might pine your head on de ploor wit’ your syu.
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