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		<title>Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s what I thought anyway. It&#8217;s the tropics. It rains a lot. Everywhere I go I see flooded rice fields. When we started the process of looking for land, I was told by numerous people to make sure the land doesn&#8217;t flood in the rainy season. So having an adequate supply of water was &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/08/24/water-water-everywhere/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Being Autistic In The Philippines</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/06/13/being-autistic-in-the-philippines/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On so many levels, it was an insane choice to move to the Philippines as an autistic person. I did it anyway.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Free Range Life In The Province</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/06/02/free-range-life-in-the-province/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a city person. That doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t like cities; I do. Cities are amazing. Boston. New York. Dublin. London. Nairobi. Dar es Salaam. And even Iloilo City. These places offer opportunities and experiences and services that you can&#8217;t find anywhere else. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I want to live there. In &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/06/02/free-range-life-in-the-province/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Free Range Life In The Province"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Powering Up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our property in Dueñas has a small house on it, and electricity of a sort. There is no proper connection at the transformer, rather there is a jury-rigged power line, held up on some flimsy bamboo poles, that actually terminates at a neighbors house, and is connected/disconnected there. This worked okay for the previous owners, &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/03/10/powering-up/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Powering Up"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Did Somebody Say Dragons?</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/01/22/did-somebody-say-dragons/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our search for our little piece of paradise has been ongoing for a long time and now, finally, we are a step away from the finish line...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Quick Update</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/01/07/a-quick-update/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 02:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am long overdue in writing this update, but I just haven&#8217;t felt motivated or organized enough to do so. So this will be very short. The lot in Barotac Viejo we were on the verge of purchasing didn&#8217;t work out. Everything was fine with the two lots we were going to purchase, but there &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/01/07/a-quick-update/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "A Quick Update"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Here We Go Again!</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/10/24/here-we-go-again/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing this sure feels familiar. Was it four years ago I wrote here about the urge to buy land? In fact, that was also in October! That was when I purchased a piece of land up on the Colorado Plateau in eastern Arizona, just below the Navajo Nation. I&#8217;ve been thinking about that today since &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/10/24/here-we-go-again/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Here We Go Again!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Married</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/09/03/getting-married/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting married in the US is easy. You go down to the city hall, show them your ID to prove you&#8217;re of age, fill out the application for a marriage license, and you&#8217;re all set. It doesn&#8217;t work like that in the Philippines. In the Philippines, the list of requirements is a page long. You &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/09/03/getting-married/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Getting Married"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wheels</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/07/31/wheels/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in April I wrote about having to make a late night trip up to Barotac Viejo when Edrian was in the hospital, and how that had made me rethink buying a vehicle now rather than later. I did some checking into how much it would cost to park here at the condo where we &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/07/31/wheels/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Wheels"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So This Happened</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/05/21/so-this-happened/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been living here in Iloilo City for a bit over 6 months now. It feels like just yesterday that I got here, and at the same time it feels like I&#8217;ve been here forever. I will interpret that as a good thing; it feels new and fresh and exciting, and at the same time &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2024/05/21/so-this-happened/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "So This Happened"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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