on one of my more stressful vacations
just uploaded the pics from my bohol trip (june 9-12, 2007). white sands, chocolate hills, little tarsiers, historic sites, bee farm, lunches, and lots of group shots :)
http://chuckafrica.multiply.com/photos/album/35
yeah, one of my more stressful vacations. it's not because i had work on my mind (oh no, of course not! work was the last thing i wanted to think about that weekend).
maybe i was just used to my past sun-sea-sand vacations to boracay, montemar, even in la union. my past trips did not have any "strictly" scheduled sight-seeings, swimming cut short by the anticipated mass, inuman-puyatan with 6 am wake-up times, un-airconditioned rooms nor transpo, drinks without ice, ligo sans la tuwalya, beds on the papag, swimming back to the banca sans a lifevest, an hour boat-ride on a wavy-windy sea that's worse than any EK ride, rushing to the supermarkets for pasalubong, my usual ka-praningan with some people, etcetera.
it was bitin. maybe because our trip lacked "chillaxing" moments that we all craved for and got used to in vacations past.
but, it was still fun, of course. it will always be there.
and some unusual moments - the familiar faces during that weekend - from luigi (who i didnt know was our "tour" guide) to co-turistas that weekend like jorel and louie and hans tan and even some people from isd (who even approached me); the real "weirdo" side of miko; the "eeek-eeek-eeek" moment at the tarsier place; calling boholana kate for an hourly update or advice; experimenting successfully with punyeta and tropicana-gin; and for some reason, not running out of cash. :)
one very important learning: a P300-400 one hour full-body massage on a holiday vacation is always worth it. :)
http://chuckafrica.multiply.com/photos/album/35
yeah, one of my more stressful vacations. it's not because i had work on my mind (oh no, of course not! work was the last thing i wanted to think about that weekend).
maybe i was just used to my past sun-sea-sand vacations to boracay, montemar, even in la union. my past trips did not have any "strictly" scheduled sight-seeings, swimming cut short by the anticipated mass, inuman-puyatan with 6 am wake-up times, un-airconditioned rooms nor transpo, drinks without ice, ligo sans la tuwalya, beds on the papag, swimming back to the banca sans a lifevest, an hour boat-ride on a wavy-windy sea that's worse than any EK ride, rushing to the supermarkets for pasalubong, my usual ka-praningan with some people, etcetera.
it was bitin. maybe because our trip lacked "chillaxing" moments that we all craved for and got used to in vacations past.
but, it was still fun, of course. it will always be there.
and some unusual moments - the familiar faces during that weekend - from luigi (who i didnt know was our "tour" guide) to co-turistas that weekend like jorel and louie and hans tan and even some people from isd (who even approached me); the real "weirdo" side of miko; the "eeek-eeek-eeek" moment at the tarsier place; calling boholana kate for an hourly update or advice; experimenting successfully with punyeta and tropicana-gin; and for some reason, not running out of cash. :)
one very important learning: a P300-400 one hour full-body massage on a holiday vacation is always worth it. :)