The road


Carefree highway, let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you

–Gordon Lightfoot

Feeling down in the dumps this morning so I headed out for a long walk to Subic town and back.

I took the Subic bypass highway going and the busier National Highway coming back.

For whatever reason, I’d never actually done this walk before. I guess there is just not that much of interest to me in Subic. But I was curious about what this store may be like:

Its name seemed oddly familiar somehow…

Nothing like a Wal-Mart back home though. It was actually more mall-like, with several shops and eateries. The Waltermart itself was a grocery store.

The “interesting” photo from the walk would be this example of riverside living:

Probably wouldn’t be to my liking…

Anyway, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done walk this long without a break. I was tired at the end, but maybe slightly more right in the head.

Three miles per hour. That’s a pretty decent pace for an old fucker,

I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from a dog’s perspective:

Buddy says “life’s a beach”.

It’s the bitches you gotta look out for.



The ladies come to see you
If your name still rings a bell
They give you damn near nothin’
And they’ll say they knew you well
So you tell ’em you’ll remember
But they know it’s just a game
And along the way their faces
All begin to look the same
And when you stop to let ’em know
You got it down
It’s just another town along the road

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