Owner: Have Internet Will Travel URL:http://www.haveinternetwilltravel.com Join Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:45:27 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: After 10 years in the Internet industry, veteran web designer Kelly Hale and developer Mike Schimanowsky (Shim) have sold their worldly belongings, bid farewell to friends and family, packed a laptop and traded in the daily 9-5 for a life of nomadic freel Site statistics:Click here
Week 9: Back in Dauin 2008-11-03 06:28:52 When we last updated you guys we had just arrived back in Dauin after spending a week in Boracay. With only a few days left before halloween, and no plans yet we decided to head into town and wrangle up some costumes. Those of you that know me, know I love halloween, so I have [...]
Week 8 2008-10-30 10:29:42 We’ve spent 2 months in the Philippines! Wow, that went by fast. This week we headed off to the Buglasan festival in Dumaguete which is kind of like a tourism fair for the local communities on Negros Oriental where each town or barangay sets up a display area lauding their tourist attractions. It was quaint, [...]
Week 7: Takin ‘er Easy 2008-10-20 22:01:20 We got back from Siquijor Tuesday night and spent most of Wednesday relaxing, catching up on emails and doing a bit of work we’d put off before we left.
On Thursday we headed into town to run some errands. We had a few things on our list to accomplish, the most important of which, was to [...] Read more:Takin
Learning to Dive in the Philippines 2008-10-19 09:56:44 While Kelly is a certified Dive Master and has done more than 150 dives during her various travels, I was always somewhat reserved about getting involved in the sport. Partially because it was her hobby and I was into motorcycles, giving us each our own independent, expensive, recreational interests. More so because the idea of [...] Read more:Learning
, Philippines
Siquijor 2008-10-17 09:52:49 Saturday morning we left for Siquijor. A small island about 45 minutes from Dumaguete. We got up early and took a trike into town, had breakfast and then headed to the pier. We had planned to take one of the larger car ferries because we heard they were reliable and unlike the fast ferries there [...]
Week 6: Happy Thanksgiving! 2008-10-14 08:37:57 I can’t believe it’s that time of year already. Not surprisingly it doesn’t feel anything like Thanksgiving
. No cold fall weather, no turkey, and no friends or family to share it with. That’s not to say that the day went by unnoticed, it definitely didn’t. I thought about all of you back home and wondered [...] Read more:Happy
Casaroro Falls 2008-10-07 22:26:39 Yesterday we visited the beautiful Casaroro Falls
. We hired a van in Dumaguete the day before, and arranged to be picked up from our resort in Dauin the next morning. We managed to haggle the price down from 3000pesos to 2500pesos (about $58) but it was still a bit expensive with only the two of [...]
Week 5: Life in Dauin 2008-10-07 02:57:13 It still hasn’t really hit yet that we live here. Despite moving into our own apartment, and both of us starting up with some work again, it still just feels like an extended vacation. I’m sure that will eventually wear off, but for now I’m just trying to enjoy it.
This week, like last, [...]
Week 3 & 4: Settling In 2008-09-29 23:11:46 OK I know I missed a week. But some how the days here just seem to fly by. I’m amazed by people who manage to post everyday. Here I am living in a tropical paradise where my biggest decision of the day is ’should I read my book by the pool or in a hammock?’ [...]
Week 12 : Not just a vacation anymore 2008-11-24 02:56:28 It’s starting to feel like we actually live here now, and not just like an extended vacation. We’re starting to get into a bit of a routine and things are feeling really comfortable. It’s also been almost a month since we’ve done anything really ‘touristy’. So when Cita, the woman who owns our house, asked [...]
Searching for a dive computer in the Philippines 2008-11-18 21:52:18 Since I learned to scuba dive it’s become apparent that I need a dive computer. They’re just too useful. Keeping track of your dive time, adjusting your O2 levels for Nitrox dives, watching your no-decompression time. All these things can be estimated the old fashioned way by using the US Navy dive tables, but it’s [...] Read more:Philippines
Week 11: Getting settled in Dauin 2008-11-18 20:48:26 We love the new beach house we’re renting. This week has been all about getting set up in our new place. We went into town on Tuesday to stock up on food and get a few other essentials. We had a rice cooker in our last rental at the resort and I don’t know how [...] Read more:settled
Random Factoid: Metal rings around palm trees 2008-11-18 19:17:47 The metal band around a palm tree is to stop rodents from climbing the tree to eat the palm fruit. We initially thought it might be to assist climbing for harvesting or to keep the tree skinnier as it grows… Apparently not. :) Read more:Factoid
, Metal
, Random
We moved. To a beach front house in Dauin. 2008-11-14 01:35:44 Ah, paradise. This is what we were searching for. After 2 months in the Philippines, looking high and low for the ideal apartment, hut, beach house, or resort to call home… we’ve finally found it.
Puerto Citas is just minutes down the beach from the El Dorado Beach Resort where we were previously staying. When we [...]
Week 10: Finding a new place to live in Dauin 2008-11-11 00:50:44 Another week gone by. Week 10! I can hardly believe how fast time is flying. This week was mostly spent working and looking for a new place to live. Both of us had a few work projects on the go, and finding a new home has been top of the list for a couple weeks [...]
Tanduay Taste Test - Rhum ron, rum. 2008-11-10 00:37:42 Well, what else is there to do on a Sunday? Here’s our review of the locally produced Filipino rums. Well, everything that was available… Except for the white rum, which doesn’t count because its invisible. ;)
** Note, this taste test is amateur at best. There was no rinsing of glasses. No spitting. No extended pinky [...]
How we moved to a tropical paradise 2008-11-05 03:46:18 Some of our readers have asked us, “Why did you move to the Philippines?” To which we often laughingly reply, “Why not?” Kelly and I both had a serious case of the travel bug shortly after our trip to Brazil a year ago and we had decided that we would (and could!) turn nomadic freelancing [...]
Recommend Site To A Friend
