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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>
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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>
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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>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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					<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>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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					<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>Some Random Observations</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/12/23/some-random-observations/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 09:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iloilo City]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the title says, this will just be some random vignettes of my life here in Iloilo City. Inday and I went to SM Supermarket, which is in SM City, the large mall. We came out with a cart full of shopping bags, ordered a Grab car to bring us home, and when the car &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/12/23/some-random-observations/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Some Random Observations"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fill &#8216;Er up! No, wait! Don&#8217;t!</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/10/11/fill-er-up-no-wait-dont/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This morning I hiked out to Laurel Falls, and on the drive out to the trailhead I stopped for gas. As usual, I was going to fill the truck up, but as I was pumping gas I thought &#8220;No, wait. You&#8217;re not going to use a whole tank of gas before you leave here!&#8221; So &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/10/11/fill-er-up-no-wait-dont/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Fill &#8216;Er up! No, wait! Don&#8217;t!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>50 Days</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/09/05/50-days/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[50 days from today, at 7:45 in the morning, I will be flying out of the Tr-Cities Airport, bound for Dallas, then Seoul, then Cebu, and finally on to Iloilo. 50 Days. I bought the tickets for my flights almost 3 months ago, so at the time it felt like I had forever to get &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/09/05/50-days/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "50 Days"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About The Pizza</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/07/10/its-all-about-the-pizza/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have I complained on this blog about the sorry state of pizza in most of the United States? Maybe not. But it is a sorry mess. Having grown up in Connecticut, halfway between New York and Boston, and 20 minutes from Wooster Street in New Haven, I thought everybody had access to great pizza. Boy, &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/07/10/its-all-about-the-pizza/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "It&#8217;s All About The Pizza"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Manila Airport</title>
		<link>https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/06/03/manila-airport/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 10:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from a trip to Iloilo City in the Philippines. I know there are people in the world who get to choose their travel itinerary based on convenience while ignoring cost. I&#8217;m not one of those people. I chose my travel itinerary based on which tickets were cheapest. That being so, our itinerary &#8230; <a href="https://monkeywrenchyourlife.com/2023/06/03/manila-airport/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Manila Airport"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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