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When I grew up in the Philippines, my family never owned a vehicle of any kind. Living on the island of Mindanao did not require us to have one. We could normally get anywhere we wanted to go by either bus or tricycle (which is a motorcycle with a covered sidecar and passenger seats in the rear).

Since I got here to the US about six years ago, my hubby and I have owned five different vehicles and the one that he had when I got here had been purchased new only a few months before. It isn’t that my hubby likes to change vehicles every year, it is just that we have had an unusual string of accidents and circumstances which have put us in the position of needing to acquire another vehicle.

The car that my hubby had before I got here was a 1994 Chrysler New Yorker which he really loved. The car was very comfortable and good for long trips. Unfortunately, a big buck deer jumped out in front of him and totaled the car so he had to buy a new one in the fall of 2005. He got a good deal on that car but because he was in such a hurry to get one, he bought one with a four cylinder engine that wasn’t quite powerful enough to tow our boat.

That was the first time that he had used the internet to search for cars and he was back on the road again one day after his collision with the deer. By the next summer, he was thinking he should have got a car with a V6 engine and since his son liked our car, we decided to sell that one to him and looked for a new one. We were able to take our time and found exactly what we were looking for on the internet and got a great deal to boot. We liked that car really well and wanted to keep it forever but unfortunately we got run off the road in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on our way to my sister’s wedding and the car was again totaled. That time we decided to buy an old beater truck to get around until we could find a new vehicle that we would want to keep for a long time. We got a brand new 2009 Chevy at a great price and we still have the old beater truck to pull our boat and haul wood.

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Many years ago, my hubby bought a new motorcycle so he could go riding with his friends. One of his friends had a Harley Davidson and after riding with him for a while, my hubby got envious and wished that he had bought a Harley. The sound and style was unique to the Harley and he thought that if he ever bought another motorcycle it would probably be a Harley Davidson. Since we live here in northern Minnesota, the motorcycle riding season is rather short and he has not really been in the market for a new motorcycle lately.

We are starting to think about buying a second home in the Philippines now and if we did, a motorcycle would be a great way to get around because the cycling season is year round there. My hubby has been thinking more and more lately that if we do buy a house in the Philippines that we would probably buy a motorcycle also. I don’t know if he still wants to get a Harley Davidson or not but I know where he could get harley davidson accessories at great prices if we do decide to buy one. Actually I am not even sure if they sell Harley Davidsons over there because I have never seen one. Most of the motorcycles there are small bikes like the ones my parents have. We rode one of them around the last time we were there and it was really a lot of fun.

I like to travel a lot but I am afraid of getting lost. My hubby is pretty good at navigation but even he has trouble sometimes at night or when it is overcast. If he is in an familiar area, he generally knows which direction he has to go and if the sun is out or it is a clear night, he can pretty easily determine the points of the compass. A problem arises when the sky is heavily overcast. Our previous car had a compass but the one that we have now does not. A Garmin GPS would be a really handy device to have before we decide to take our next long trip.

Before I came here to the US, I had no idea of what the weather was like here in northern Minnesota. The day I arrived here in late March of 2006 was about 45 degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis and I thought I was going to freeze into a block of ice. Even though my new husband had provided me with warm winter clothing, I could not stop shivering until I got to the warmth of our hotel room. Fortunately, the weather began to quickly warm up after that and soon I was experiencing a beautiful Minnesota spring and summer. It was a good thing that I did not arrived in December like we were first hoping because I might have changed my mind and gone back to the Philippines before spring arrived.

Now here it is December again already and I am not looking forward to another long cold Minnesota winter. Fortunately, we are planning a trip to the Philippines in the upcoming months so hopefully I won’t have to endure the cold weather for too many more months. We are also now starting to think about buying a place in the Philippines and spending the winter months there while coming back here for the great spring and summer weather. That would be the best of both worlds in my opinion.

I love to be able to get out in the sun on those warm Minnesota days and spend sometime boating and fishing on the area lakes. I also like traveling a lot and have thought about buying an RV so that we could travel to visit my sister in Colorado and our friends in New York whenever we would like. The perfect rig for our Minnesota summers would be an RV towing our boat with a motorcycle on the back bumper of the RV. I have been checking out the RVs at the b n rv website and they have the perfect rig at rock bottom prices.

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Winter is coming on here soon in northern Minnesota. We need to put our winter survival gear in the car soon so that we don’t have to worry about getting stranded in a storm. Now that we have a car with a built in phone, getting stranded for very long is less likely. Now that my hubby has been having some medical problems this year, we should probably think about getting a roadside assistance plan in addition to our survival kit.

I love to travel. It is one of my favorite things in life. Unfortunately, we don’t have the resources to be able to do a lot of it. I have been able to travel back and forth to my homeland, the Philippines several times since I got here to the US in 2006. Other than the Philippines, we have only managed one trip outside of the US which was to Venezuela and that was primarily on business.

I have been wanting to take a trip to Europe to visit my sister, brother in-law and new niece but unless my hubby gets over his recent health problems, the long trans oceanic trips would be too much for him to handle. He usually travels with me but stayed home this last spring when I took my last trip to the Philippines. I don’t like going without him but under the circumstances I did not have much choice.

Maybe our next trip can be a return to South America. The flights there are much shorter and easier to endure. If we go down there again for business, I would like to extend the trip this time and do some sightseeing around the continent. The Peru Tours look like they would be very interesting. One of the most prestigious tour operators in that area is Voyagers. They provide some of the best Machu Picchu Tours and Machu Picchu Travel advice that you can get. Their packages include some of the finest accommodations at some of the most interesting places in the world.

The scenery in Peru is breathtaking and the Inca ruins are some of the most ancient and interesting in the world. Voyagers also provides tours to Ecuador, the Galapagos, Bolivia and other parts of South America. If we are able to make another trip to South America soon, we will definitely take advantage of their services. For more information check them out at the linked website.