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...
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...
It rained in Manila. For four days straight. For the entire time I was there. Most people had told me I could just skip the city altogether, it wasn't worth it. But I had actually been looking forward to it....
I'll always remember how it felt to book the first flight of this journey. I was, admittedly, at work searching the interweb for some sort of deal to get me to Europe. I stumbled on a cheap one way ticket to Berlin and, after a...