(UPDATED 2019) “What’s the best beach for you?” I asked an adventurous blogger friend, who was known to just pick a place off the map and go. If he spotted a promising strip of white sand via Google Earth, he would make plans to go there. A few years have already passed since he gave his…
My grandmother, just arrived from Quezon, opens a multi-colored bayong and I wait in anticipation. From the woven bag peeks out tiny, shiny shells with even tinier feet wiggling. Often food, sometimes pets, kimpi (crablets, or more known in Tagalog as talangka) are an indelible part of my childhood. My lola and kimpis are inseparable in my memory, as she used to bring…
Something you have to try at least once in your life. Photo from Atimonan Rock Climbing After taking home an amazing, almost transcendental experience from rock climbing and enduring life lessons to go with it, I have become a convert. No, I do not plan to regularly come face to face with those towering and…
Traveling Light 