All posts filed under: Travel

The Pleasure of Leaving

I flew in from Taipei 18 hours ago and I'm still not quite sure if I've righted myself just yet. There is no time difference between Manila and Taipei, but I found myself still awake at 4 a.m., still coated with sleep by the time I woke up at around 2 in the afternoon. I […]

Lonely Planet’s Make My Day: Tokyo and How to Survive Anything (Review and Giveaway)

I very rarely buy reference books—especially when the cheapskate in me would rather just Google everything. Information is free and abundant on the Internet, but it actually does take a whole lot of legwork to weed out useless information and compile all of my data in a concise and easy-to-understand manner. If you don’t want […]

Beng’s Baler Birthday

We spent two nights over at Baler for Beng’s birthday (she turned 25, we old), and it was pretty nice. Baler’s a municipality in Aurora, which is a province in the NE area of the Philippines. It’s “accessible via a mountain pass” and the drive takes about five hours. Noah was pretty behaved on this […]

Hoover Dam & Lake Mead, 2014

It took me long enough, right? This is the last post on our trip to the States late last year, and it has some of my favorite photos, if I’m being honest. Part II | Part III, you’re welcome Our story begins where the last one I posted (pitifully, a couple of months ago, sorry) […]

Nevada

Each time we’d gone to Vegas (admittedly not a lot of times), we mainly stayed along the Strip, exploration not going beyond casinos and shows. And it’s not very fun either, because we don’t even gamble or participate in general debauchery Vegas has been known for. Our Vegas trip is probably a lot different from […]