Days of Tropic Thunder

Out on the road in Cebu: make sure your seatbelt is tightly fastened, that is if one exists, most vehicles don't have them. If you aren't covering your eyes or ducking under the seat from the countless close calls with trucks, motorbikes, dogs and children....and street vendors...and horse drawn carriages....and food cart bikes, you actually get to see some crazy stuff. See below.

Yes, that's an automatic riffle.



He is very relaxed for doing 45 mph.

  

The people blurred in the background are part of a drum corps parade marching down the
middle of the street with traffic speeding by on both sides.



Tricylces (three people sit on the bike, and as many as can fit in the side car)



7 people, several bags of groceries, 2 motrobikes

 

Pastry bike



Just long enough



 

This mattress will be good for wind resistance

Tricycle- not nearly as crowded as we've seen



Video of driving in Cebu City. About 30 sec in you will get to see

the free-for-all that is a typical Philippine intersection. Notice the

motorbikes weaving in between large trucks and jeepneys. The Jeepney

barker clinging to the back railing in flip-flops and the bizzare wet child

standing in the middle of everything. The guy who shows up in the bottom

of the frame is a motocyclist who nearly rammed into us trying to cut

across traffic.