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A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Eight
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Seven The journey to Sagada ("sah-gah-dah"), a lushly green, diesel-choked and crowded Mountain Province village about 90 minutes north of Banaue is stunning, winding and pretty much … [Read More...]
Off to Chile
I started the year with only one firm travel goal: Visiting South America for the first time. Tomorrow, I'm off to meet that goal in the long, skinny country of Chile! … [Read More...]
A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Seven
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Six The Batad Rice Terraces are the big-ticket draw in the northern Philippines. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in a bowl-shaped valley, this emerald-green landscape is an astonishing … [Read More...]
A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Six
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Five Thanks for hanging in with me this far, folks. For your trouble, you'll get to see some cool photos of rice terraces and a tribal village. That is, the reasons anyone might … [Read More...]
A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Five
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Four It's not as though a 10-hour nighttime drive ever sounds like a good idea. I mean, maybe if the route is so hideous it could turn Lot's wife to salt -- but that's not really an issue in the … [Read More...]
A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Four
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Three I easily found JD, my travel companion, in our Manila hotel lobby: he looked just like his social media photos, minus a hat or a dolphin. Within moments of meeting him, I was relieved to … [Read More...]
A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Three
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Two The idea of going to a city as huge as Manila and not exploring it for fear that a terrorist attack may or may not happen at any unspecified time or place (but probably won’t) is, … [Read More...]
A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part Two
Continued from A Philippine Comedy of Errors: Part One On my 15-hour Philippine Airlines flight, direct from Los Angeles to the Philippine capital of Manila, I'd scored the semi-holy grail of coach class: two airline seats all to … [Read More...]
