Category: Blog
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To the island of Culion
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently…
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Under the Fire Tree
Along my street, not too far away from home, there is a magnificent tree ablaze with bright, red flowers. I pass under it every day, and I look up each time – at its vermillion blossoms and outstretched branches offering shade to anyone passing by. It is the most striking thing on an otherwise ordinary street, and I often wonder how it came…
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A good reason to wake up at three in the morning
There are only three reasons why I would get up insanely early: 1. I need to cram for a deadline, 2. I want to watch the sunrise, or 3. I have to go on a trip. Fortunately, this one fell under the last category. I’ve had “Trek to Pinatubo” on my bucket list for the longest time, and…
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Ocean sun and salt
On a whim, my friend, Pat, and I got on a bus to La Union and went straight to the Flotsam and Jetsam hostel. It was perfect timing, really, because everyone had just gone home from a long weekend of drinking and partying (from dusk ’til dawn, we were told), so we had the hostel all to ourselves.
Trish in Transit 