Sharing a car in the Philippines

[Dave Hounddriver]

2 hours ago, Barden said:

do you mean that  I cant drive with the international drivers license the first 90 days

I am sure you can drive in the Philippines for 90 days if your international driver's license is in English. Most, if not all, English language licenses are accepted for 90 days.  IF your license from your home country is in English then you don't even need the IDL

[RBM]

1 hour ago, Mike J said:

For sure.  Using a cane and limping today.  Last night we have Christmas eve dinner at mother-in-laws house.   The driveway is two strips of concrete with grass in the middle.  As departed on my scooter I noticed one of the dinner guests had parked at the end of driveway and I need to shift from the left side of the drive to the right to go around his multicab.  It had been raining all day and when the front tire of my scooter hit that grass and wet dirt, the bike slid right out from under me.   Skinned up right knee and bike fell and pinned my right foot.  If the foot doesn't feel better in a day or so I will have it x-rayed as it feels like a possible fracture of one of the metatarsals.  Knee got skinned up a bit and it actually looked kind of nasty by the time I got home, blood from knee to ankle as I take blood thinners due to a stroke in 2017.   So even a very low speed crash can be painful.  Dumb on my part, I should have walked the bike from one side of the drive to the other considering the rain and grass/dirt in the middle.  I was going to give up riding when I turned 70.  72 now and I suppose I need to giver some serious thought to an alternative to get around town, run errands, etc.   But limping or not, this is still a better Christmas than last year when the super typhoon tore up Moalboal. 

Oh so true, past time to give it away, I stopped riding at 68. Big bikes, low speed crashes as experienced can be very serious. Close friend broke ankle in Thailand just turning bike around less than walking speed. Returned to Philippines which began a long tedious trip to recovery.

Makes sense to me, taxi Jeep or have a car, at least some protection, we don"t  heal as fast these days........Hope you heal up soon.

[gbmmbg]

5 hours ago, Mike J said:

So even a very low speed crash can be painful.

Or even a no speed. I caught my foot getting off my YTX 125. Only a few bruises but dam it knocked the wind out of me when i hit the deck. Hope your foot is ok.

[Mike J]

On 12/25/2022 at 6:04 AM, Mike J said:

For sure.  Using a cane and limping today.  Last night we have Christmas eve dinner at mother-in-laws house.   The driveway is two strips of concrete with grass in the middle.  As departed on my scooter I noticed one of the dinner guests had parked at the end of driveway and I need to shift from the left side of the drive to the right to go around his multicab.  It had been raining all day and when the front tire of my scooter hit that grass and wet dirt, the bike slid right out from under me.   Skinned up right knee and bike fell and pinned my right foot.  If the foot doesn't feel better in a day or so I will have it x-rayed as it feels like a possible fracture of one of the metatarsals.  Knee got skinned up a bit and it actually looked kind of nasty by the time I got home, blood from knee to ankle as I take blood thinners due to a stroke in 2017.   So even a very low speed crash can be painful.  Dumb on my part, I should have walked the bike from one side of the drive to the other considering the rain and grass/dirt in the middle.  I was going to give up riding when I turned 70.  72 now and I suppose I need to giver some serious thought to an alternative to get around town, run errands, etc.   But limping or not, this is still a better Christmas than last year when the super typhoon tore up Moalboal. 

I discovered that lime juice makes a good pain reliever.   Just mix one teaspoon of lime juice with a jigger of gin, and some tonic water.  Amazing