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Why I love going on vacay with my grown-up kids
When my kids were still very little, vacations weren’t exactly vacations, at least for me. Somebody has to make the arrangements, that’s me. Somebody has to pack, that’s me. Somebody has to make sure everybody’s okay, still me. So when we get home from the vacation, I need a vacation to recover from the vacation.…
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How it’s like for Gen X to go up the mountains with millennials
Bundled up in my jammies and hoodie, I am reminded of an impromptu trip to Sagada two years ago. It was a spur of the moment thing, brought on by a photograph of a colleague enjoying the cool climes of the mountains. It immediately reminded of that scene in That Thing Called Tadhana where Mace…
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Where I’m taking a mental vacation
Sometime January, we were very fortunate to have escaped from quarantine to a house on a hill, somewhere in Batangas. This was when quarantine rules were relaxed a bit, and hotels and resorts started opening one by one. Because I was too paranoid to book a room in a hotel, I turned to AirBnB where…
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Why I jumped off a cliff
One of the more memorable adventures I had as an editor of a domestic travel magazine was going on a river trek in Mapawa Nature Park in Cagayan de Oro. Here’s how I began the story… “By the time I reached the edge of the cliff, I was tired, hungry, and thirsty. Beyond the rocky…
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How we spent 48 hours in Cebu
The good thing about going through old files is you get to relive some awesome memories. I had already forgotten that around this time last year, my girlfriends and I were in Cebu to celebrate a milestone. Two of us were turning 50, and we had decided, a bunch of old ladies, to haul ass…
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