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This is a photographic account of my return to the Philippines after a 17-year absence.  There are many references here to my book "Sweet Potato" that documents this visit to my wife's home island in the Central Philippines.  I didn't have the foresight to take a camera with me on the trip but these images were all taken in the places, and of the things, that I describe in Sweet Potato.  The internet is a treasure-trove of images.  If you see your images here and want them removed or attributed just write to me and it will be done.

Not everything is in the same chronological order as the book but, if you've read the book, this page should prove to be entertaining. 
Here is an interior and exterior view of a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit train.  I did not have as joyful a cross-section of humanity aboard my return trip to the San Franscisco airport after taking my van to Joe and Fidela's house.
Two views of
the interior of the
San Francisco
International Airport Terminal.
I don't know how anyone got a photo of the Manila
International Airport terminal without throngs of
thousands standing around.
Specimens of Philippine paper money to the left.  I think the smallest denomination still in circulation is the orange 20-peso note and they have denominations up to 5000-peso now.
Everything in yellow here is considered part of Cebu.  The large island is Cebu Island and the capital city of Cebu is about halfway up the side of that island.  Camotes are the three islands off to the right.
A "pam-boat".  This one is fortunately much smaller than the one we rode from Cebu to Camotes.
This pam-boat is similar in size to the one I rode to Camotes in 1977 and was what I expected to have to ride on my return in 2006.  The sea was not so tranquil for me in 1977, with waves dwarfing the boat.  The outriggers just pretend to float on the top of the water.
Smaller, fishing pamboats on a beach on Camotes.
Just another view of a typical pam-boat.
Here are three photos of the type of pam-boat I got to ride in 2006.  Note the altar in the top photo and the "life-boat" lashed to the outrigger.  Those are probably pig crates also lashed to the outrigger.
Just another idyllic scene of a pamboat on Camotes.
A 20-man capacity in the life boat but plenty of places for the other 180 aboard to hang onto on the outside.
I can't explain the blonde
child in this photo.
Another pam-boat.
Another pam-boat.
The next 5 photos depict the shoreline of Camotes as we approach.  In the top 3 you are still a mile or two off-shore.  On the lower-left photo you can see the coral outcroppings I erroneously concluded were lava until later in this trip. 
On the bottom-right is the native bamboo, palm, and grass house easily, and necessarily, rebuildable after a storm.
Here's one way to get 6 on a motorcycle
but not the way I describe in the book.
And here's how you get 25-30 people in a Sarrao-type jeepney as I describe several times in Sweet Potato.
This is where the pam-boat
docked in the town of
Poro on Camotes.
Note the small
blue sign.
Local transportation waiting
at the pier in Poro.
The "Smash" is
what I was given...
...to ride from Poro to San Francisco.
A very traditional
all stainless steel Sarrao
jeepney common throughout the archipelago
with remarkably few people aboard.
Streets vary in
quality throughout
Camotes with unpaved roads,
like the palm-lined one to the left,
being the most abundant.
This photo was obviously taken during a dry
season because there is no slippery green,
mossy, mildew strip along the edges of the
road that caused me so much trouble in the rain.
Two examples of local home construction varying steps up from the bamboo, palm, grass variety.  Note the ventilated, decorative cement  blocks over the doorway above as described in my shower experience.  Below is a structure that seems to bridge the gap between native and substantial while not employing concrete.
Bananas and other flora.
Just someone's back yard.
Rooster:
Basketweaver's residence.
Atop one of the mushroom-shaped
islets at the Mangodlong Resort.
Lunch!  If you have to ask
what it is then you don't want it.
Note bridge to resort islet.

Resorts like this are
found in several places on Camotes,
Cave in the wave-eroded coral shoreline.
Part of Lake Danao.
Sunset and long shadows
on a Camotes beach.
A wider view of Lake Danao.
Precarious walkway down to a resort beach.
The view from a resort.
A number of photos follow of
various coastlines, resorts, and
beaches on Camotes.
Low tide at a resort.
At the risk of stating the obvious, I will tell you that this is from the inside of a shoreline cave, looking out.
A local, and altogether
unnecesary, cave guide.
A reort with a
bamboo dining
area.
And a pool table!
A weatherbeaten resort hut.
Part of a resort menu. 

It might help you to know that 50 pesos is about a dollar.
Coconut palms.
Pomellos. 

There's no such thing
as too many. 

Unlike prunes.
Arriving back at the pier in Cebu.
Approaching the pier at Cebu.
A typical produce stand at a Philippine market.
If these pages cause you to want to read the book, request it at your local bokstore.  Then perhaps a publisher will decide to actually print it.  Until then, you might try writing to me for a copy.