My sex and the city girlfriends (referring to my college close friends) are my constant companions whenever I wander. It became our pact after graduation to travel yearly, have a get together frequent with annual summer getaway, and be more carefree and full of life in our 20s and 30s.
New travel experiences, i enjoyed this more often with Katie and Rona. Flights, land and sea travel, i have vivid memories of how I enjoyed my youth with these pretty ladies. I became more adventurous and risk taker but cautious as well in my travels also. Some of my best travel memories and even nerve wracking memories, I experienced it with them, wheew.
- Bantayan, Cebu - we braved the storm literally; weather turned bad and our ferry was dancing crazy on the big waves. The ferry passengers aside from us were so frighten because the 1 hr sea travel almost took more than 2 hrs, with the captain being cautious to maneuver the ferry well (major tsunami news just happened in the philippines at that time but we still pushed with our flight to cebu thinking that weather will turn better.)
- Experiencing the best and hidden beaches of Calaguas and Coron, Palawan. During that time, it was not yet publicized in social media.
- My very first trip abroad, in Kota Kinabalu Malaysia. Who would have thought that Malaysia will be my 1st country to visit and where on earth is Kota Kinabalu. Air asia is promoting this island with super low fares that time. I even thought my passport even got lost in Clark, looking for it for 15 minutes with the airport personnel/maintenance team because my travel friend unintentionally placed it in her bag thinking that it was her passport. Lol, very sweaty experience imagining myself that i did not make it my supposed to be 1st trip abroad....
- Riding a small boat without lifevest because there were no available lifevest as the island is not well known to the tourists that time (remote so to speak). To get into the island and we have to transfer from a big boat to small boat as the big one could not dock in the shore. Im a beach girl but I don't know how to swim in deep open water. Like it's a nerve wracking experience since the boat is super small, we were only 6 in that boat and it almost overturned, my vivid memory is that the boatman balanced the boat with his feet. I think, i will never be that risk taker again....
This year, since my 2 girlfriends are already married, with one having a 4 yr old kid, our travels now are more cautious and we prefer to do land travels since we can come back to Manila easily. Now, we are plus 1 with a kid, another new experience for me as i get to bond with Maia (Rona's little one) being her adult tita haha! Again our trip to Zambales is memorable given that we were stopped by a traffic officer, we, somehow violated the intersection rule in Subic (which we are not at all aware off, kindly google search this intersection rule). Fortunately, we were able to explain our side and sincerely apologize that we do not know the traffic rules in Subic; the officer then politely let us go....
When we arrived at El Zamba Villas, it kind of reminds me of the Anawangin Cove because of the several Agoho trees without the need of riding a boat. It's a relaxing place and our AirBnB stay is unique since you can view the forest in your window.Roaming around the area, you will be enticed to have a remote work set up there since the rental places and AirBnBs have WIFIs. Its a developing area where you can also have opportunity to have a restau business also since Liw Liwa is being visited by surfers and beach lovers.
Sharing some nice photos from this trip. We mentioned to ourselves, we will continue to travel till we get old. XO XO. mai
