Last updated Nov 17, 2021 | First published on Nov 16, 2018 | Philippines, Travel Stories
You learn a lot of useful things while traveling, particularly in a place such as Siquijor Island in the Philippines. For instance, I didn’t know that a manananaggal is a hideous, blood-sucking witch capable of detaching her upper torso and sprouting wings to...
Last updated Oct 6, 2019 | First published on Nov 16, 2013 | Philippines
Happiness is the sag of heavy insects clinging hungrily to a mosquito net. The warm glow of a blood meal just inches away drives them mad while I sleep soundly beneath. The click click of legions of hermit crabs climbing and falling on rocks, holding secret meetings...
Last updated Aug 18, 2021 | First published on Feb 11, 2009 | Philippines
Photo of the Tasaday tribe by John Nance. Everything happens for a reason. I was in Columbus, Ohio, over the weekend to shoot photos for a USEA Area 8 (Sounds like an Army thing, but it’s a horse thing) banquet and made an unexpected and positively exhilarating...
