Actually according to wiki they are in fact regulated.
As near as I could tell you could pick out the route based on the design of the
Jeepney. We drove through where they were parked and I picked out maybe a dozen
different ones. All the ones we passed leaving the airport were mostly the
same. At first I thought they were all the same one until I looked closer,
paying attention I could see differences in turn signals, lighting, etc.
Makati City reminds me of LA in a lot of ways, its clearly a business district
designed to attract western business and as such is pretty clean and safe.
Just did a skype session with Angie which was a nice way to check in.
Interestingly my Republic Wireless cell phone works perfectly if I have wifi.
It works not at all if I don't but that basically means I can travel and call
home for no extra cost. Of course I can't use it to call in-country but thats
not a huge concern. Our office is supposedly 300 meters from here so I
shouldn't need to make many calls.
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Okie Benz <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Southeast asia
I used to go to Manila once a year, fun place to visit, but…
Watch the jeepneys closely - each one of them has a specific religious theme of
some sort, at least most of the ones I saw did. Amazingly, they’re unregulated
but the primary means of transportation for the masses. They each run a
regular route of sorts and have regular stops, at least that’s what the locals
told me.
Dan
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 7:52 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings from the Philippines! I'm here for the next 8 days teaching a class
> to new co-workers. Apparently it makes more sense to send me here than 8 of
> them to the states. After traveling for 26 hours (thats door to door) I can
> see why.The highlight of the trip was when I scored a bulkhead seat in the
> 787 from BOS-NRT. The 787 is amazing and the huge legroom in a bulkhead seat
> is nice. JAL gives nice wide seats too although the bulkhead seats get small
> TVs.From NRT to MNL was a 767 and although I had and aisle seat I was cramped
> almost to my tolerance limit the whole way, of course that was after the 12
> hour flight BOS-NRT and a 3 hour layover...
> Anyway I'll be working 10pm-7am local time which corresponds with 10am-7pm
> EDT so other than for the next 3 days (remember its Friday morning here right
> now) I'll be working just 1 hour off my normal US schedule.
> Driving to the hotel yesterday I noticed that diesel is about 30 PHP
> (Philippine pesos) a litre, there are about 45 pesos/USD so about $0.66/l.
> The car from the airport was a Camry (boring!) but I got to see loads of
> "jeepneys" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney which are pretty wild. They
> remind me of the route taxis that Angie and I rode in Barbados but are
> decorated more in a style I'd relate to India which isn't a big surprise
> since India isn't really all that far away. It was dark last night or I'd
> have tried to get a picture. I'll try to spot one today but I'm staying in
> Makati City which is pretty high class and I'm not sure they're allowed
> here...
> -Curt
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