- Yoko Ono
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Reach Out
- Yoko Ono
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Happy New Year!
It's been a great wonderful year for me in terms of travel milestones and professional life milestones but, since I am blogging here in my travel blog, let me talk about my travel experiences!
I know, I know I've been barely to a few local places in the country BUT! i truly cherish everyone of them because they have enriched me. Plus, that's exactly my plan - to somehow explore different places in the country which are not too touristy, so as to have the right to call these places my own. hahaha. Right.
Also, I traveled alone for the very first time this year! Iloilo and Guimaras will always be very special to me because of that!
I ain't a hardcore traveler yet but I am proud of visiting places which I traveled for the very first time - Marinduque, Iloilo, Guimaras, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte!
You must be perfectly aware that my personal travel style is DIY. I have had chance passenger experiences in Marinduque on a car ferry no less, rode the jeepney to beautiful churches in Iloilo. I've missed ferries, and even rode outrigger boats for the first time! But these experiences are so funny as they are stressful haha.
Second, I visit places with so many places of interest like churches, world famous heritage sites like what I saw and experienced in Ilocandia and Iloilo. I think I'm a history and culture nut like that.
Third, this year, I've completed my pilgrimage to the 4 UNESCO World Heritage Churches in the Philippines! San Agustin Church (Manila), Miag-Ao (Ilo-Ilo), Paoay (Ilocos Norte) and Sta. Maria (Ilocos Sur)! What a feat!
And lastly, I've experienced the food no less!!! And I know I will always be on a hunt for local food whenever I touch down a new destination! I always sample the local food, because to me, the best way to get to know the culture of the place is through the palate!
This year, I shall experience life more with more travel opportunities and adventures! Happy 2011 to all!!!
I know, I know I've been barely to a few local places in the country BUT! i truly cherish everyone of them because they have enriched me. Plus, that's exactly my plan - to somehow explore different places in the country which are not too touristy, so as to have the right to call these places my own. hahaha. Right.
Also, I traveled alone for the very first time this year! Iloilo and Guimaras will always be very special to me because of that!
I ain't a hardcore traveler yet but I am proud of visiting places which I traveled for the very first time - Marinduque, Iloilo, Guimaras, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte!
You must be perfectly aware that my personal travel style is DIY. I have had chance passenger experiences in Marinduque on a car ferry no less, rode the jeepney to beautiful churches in Iloilo. I've missed ferries, and even rode outrigger boats for the first time! But these experiences are so funny as they are stressful haha.
Second, I visit places with so many places of interest like churches, world famous heritage sites like what I saw and experienced in Ilocandia and Iloilo. I think I'm a history and culture nut like that.
Third, this year, I've completed my pilgrimage to the 4 UNESCO World Heritage Churches in the Philippines! San Agustin Church (Manila), Miag-Ao (Ilo-Ilo), Paoay (Ilocos Norte) and Sta. Maria (Ilocos Sur)! What a feat!
And lastly, I've experienced the food no less!!! And I know I will always be on a hunt for local food whenever I touch down a new destination! I always sample the local food, because to me, the best way to get to know the culture of the place is through the palate!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Is travel the new love?
It's been days since I went on the road and I haven't stopped thinking about going on the road again. I have been thrust into work with a new project plus I have been doing the usual stuff with the airing show. I have been reading blogs, travel blogs, and I have been inspired altogether. Especially by those female solo travelers, and the budget travelers who really keep their travels on a super tight budget, and even the ones who keep a wonderful balance between their cool jobs and then hitting the road. I am just in awe. I bought travel books, researching new places to go, urging some people to come with me and actually contemplating traveling alone.
When I looked back, before, some free time will have to be spent on movie download, or going to the malls, shopping, or reading a book, obsessing on gap enders, but recently it's all about travel travel travel for me. I'm getting lost over this. I used to be all chill. But now I'm thinking of getting rabies shots and inquiring for travel insurance. Is travel my new love?
Like love the infatuation stage is the most dangerous, most heady. And as young romances go, I am already losing a lot of sleep over it.
However it's still too early to tell.
Some people have travel as their passion and life and truth is I don't really blame them. It's hard not to get lost in traveling. One of my greatest dreams is to travel alone in some remote local province, or continent or the whole world for a whole year.
It's actually easy to just pack a bag and just go. Money is no object. There are always going to be ways.
It's the spirit that has to be readied .
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from." -Seth Godin
True. But I hardly think of travel as an escape. It is a reward - a reward to be amazed, to marvel at something bigger than myself. And I got to work hard, create more programs and fuel my passion for writing for what the majority of people wanted to watch. I have to keep the momentum in check so I can reward myself with good life and more travels.
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