January 26, the daylight revealed the beautiful waves that made the town famous. Good morning San Juan, La Union! I sat in the restaurant of Kahuna Beach Resort for breakfast and watched as the perfect …
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Lakbay Norte Diary Day 4: Paoay and Batac, Ilocos Norte
January 25, “Boarding! Boarding!”, Ivan Henares and Karlo de Leon‘s famous line echoed in the lobby of Roswell Hotel where our group converged. We will pick up the others from Plaza del Norte where they …
Continue readingLakbay Norte Diary Day 3: Pagudpud and Laoag, Ilocos Norte
January 24, everyone was already up by six in the morning, all eager and ready for our third day of more fun in Lakbay Norte. Not even a trace of the previous day’s strenuous activity …
Continue readingLakbay Norte Diary Day 2: Cagayan and Kalinga
January 23, we traveled for eight hours from Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija to Tuguegarao, Cagayan for our second day of Lakbay Norte adventures. At half past four in the morning, our bus stopped in Las Palmas …
Continue readingLakbay Norte Diary Day 1: Bulacan and Nueva Ecija
January 22, twenty three media participants showed up before sunrise at the Victory Liner terminal in Kamias, Quezon City for the third year of Lakbay Norte, an eight day media tour of northern Philippines aiming …
Continue readingI Survived Shotgun!
For mountain bikers based in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, a mere mention of “Shotgun” will surely illicit anxious faces. Not the anxiousness of excitement but more of challenge and restlessness. Shotgun is a famed …
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