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		<title>How I Got Here</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2026/09/21/how-i-got-here/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change your life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monkeywrench Moments]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The monkeywrench moments chain. That’s the thing I’ve been thinking about lately. Not the Monkeywrench Moments themselves — I’ve written about those — but how each one made the next one conceivable. The Philippines venture depended on having already done the nomadic RV life. The RV life grew directly out of the AT thru-hike. I &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2026/09/21/how-i-got-here/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "How I Got Here"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Distance</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2026/09/05/distance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What I didn't expect is how clearly some things would come into focus once I wasn't inside them every day. How much more I appreciate them. And how little of me is still only American.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unmasking</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2026/06/06/unmasking/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unmasking doesn’t make the world easier to navigate; it just changes the nature of the autism tax. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/08/24/water-water-everywhere/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying land in the Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philippines Life]]></category>
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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>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2025/03/10/powering-up/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying land in the Philippines]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying land in the Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expat Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippines Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dueñas Iloilo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panay]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying land in the Philippines]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Barotac Viejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buying Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category>
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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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