September 1, 2012
I ate a worm… (Eating Tamilok worm in the Philippines.)
I ate a worm in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. But it was really a clam or a mollusk or something like that...
August 30, 2012
Puerto Princesa Underground River in the Philippines.
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...
August 28, 2012
Buses in Bohol.
Getting anywhere in the Philippines requires taking at least three modes of transportation. So far some of my journeys have included...
August 20, 2012
Life List #4: Learn to swim.
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...
August 17, 2012
The time is now.
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....
August 15, 2012
Boracay.
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...
August 13, 2012
Four days of rain.
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....
August 8, 2012
Nothing is permanent. (A big announcement…or two…)
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...