"When I met you I thought you were together," the Korean girl sitting across from Alex and I at the bar said, "you seemed really close." This was after we answered the other guy's question of "where did you two meet," with "at the hostel yesterday." And...
El Nido is the base for exploring the islands of Palawan in the Philippines. The beach there is nothing exciting, the town has no ATM, and all the power is turned off between 6am and 2pm. But it was a nice little place to relax by...
I ate a worm in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. But it was really a clam or a mollusk or something like that...
I don't know if it was worth it, a 12-hour day for a 45 minute ride through the Puerto Princesa underground river. One of the seven wonders of the world. Or something like that. I would have preferred to sit in silence, observing the cave for...
Getting anywhere in the Philippines requires taking at least three modes of transportation. So far some of my journeys have included...
I've never really been a water person. Growing up, we had a pool in our backyard that largely went unused minus the times I would bungee jump my Barbies into it from my bedroom window. I quit my childhood swim lessons because I didn't want...
I had some of the crazier nights I've had in a while while in Boracay. Nights where this suppressed dancer danced and sang all night long. Nights where we listened to acoustic music and drank happy hour Red Horses or two for one cocktails....
Half an hour or so after checking into my hostel, after a morning's journey from Manila that consisted of taking a car, a plane, a bus, a boat, and a tricycle, after scaling the side of a barbed wire fence, I stepped onto White Beach...