the living ruins (a photo essay)
Knowing locals and immersing in their everyday lives are the things that we never failed doing whenever we go out on a trip. It’s a leaning, enriching and inspiring experience. It makes us feel like...
View Articlemt. kinabalu (leg 2): overcoming the darkness
I said to my soul, be still and wait… So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing… ~T.S. Eliot I never realized I’d be able to survive the 7-hour climb to Laban Rata. Unlike Ron,...
View Articlela escala en singapur
“When I thought that I was leaving my family behind, tears welled in my eyes. I felt I was drowning. The horse was nimble; my driver Macario, silent and so was I. What thoughts! What sad reflections!”...
View ArticleHello Stranger!
HELLO STRANGER re-collecting memories we often forget to re-member b e c a u s e t h e y a r e f l e e...
View Articlepublished!
Sometime in 2007: Monette: We will be “the” travel blog celebrities.. Ron: … NO, internet sensation … Monette: Or, travel correspondents… Ron: Make that, Travel writers for guide books and travel...
View Articleto the moon and back: the 2011 philippine blog awards
To find out that we have been selected as one of the finalists in this year’s Philippine Blog Awards was enough for us to drop our delicates while walking to our respective offices… Yes, we want to say...
View ArticleFaces and Places of 2012
In the past years, we dreamed it in bright colors. So when 2012 came, we contained the explosion of eagerness and tantric excitement. The journeys commenced and we kicked the ground with immense...
View Articleof falls and falling out
Ever pouring, ever living, it roars an ever raging lamentation of the universe. My earliest memory of an outdoor trip was when Lolo strapped me on the backseat of his DIY stainless “owner” jeep and...
View ArticleTravel Trends for 2019
Year of the pig is the last in the twelve-year cycle of the lunar calendar. According to one myth, the pig was late because he overslept. While another story said he had to rebuild his home because...
View ArticleOf Lego and Haystack
The universe I knew was everything between the church, the wet market, my school, our house, and the farm. That was it, the world in its entirety, what lies yonder is practically unknown. Of the...
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