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Current Rank: 86 (Travel & Leisure)
URL: livinginabackpack.blogspot.com
Site Description: I live in a suitcase most part of the year and this is my bout of compulsive travel syndrome. Get inside my head on long bus rides and join me in my search of self and a new hometown.
Date Joined: Jul 20, 2008

Tags: destinations philippines, backpacking philippines, philosophy, travel, travel photography


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Around Batanes on the Cheap
on Aug 12, 2010 in budget travel batanes Eight hundred pesos (Php800.00) for a 24-hour rental ain't that bad. Gas included.This is not a motorcycle! This is not a bicycle either!I have issues with chauffeured tours. Checking out the sights with somebody waiting or rushing me in every s...



Batanes Homestay in a street called Babat!
on Aug 11, 2010 in budget travel batan island batanes Marboro Country ||| photo lifted from this site >>>"It's only five minutes walk from the airport.""If we hire po a tricyle, magkano po kaya ang pamasahi?" "The fare is around thirty pesos. Di na lalagpas ng trienta," (Won't exceed thirty pes...



Batanes: rough seas, turbulent skies and bumpy ride. Or is it?
on Aug 5, 2010 in budget travel batanes basco this photo is lifted from the web"Window seat, exit row," with a knowing smile, I'd tell the lady behind the check-in counter. "Nice view, pseudo-business class leg room..." insert these in my thought bubble whilst I wait for the printer to cough up...



How NOT to be Chosen to the Seair + Microtel Suites Boracay Bloggers' Tour
on Aug 1, 2010 in seair boracay microtel How NOT to be chosen to the Southeast Asian Airlines (SEAIR) + Microtel Inns and Suites Boracay Bloggers' Tour or actually something NOT like it. Super-scared to fly! How afraid are you gonna get? First off, I am the penultimate prizewinner...



hello from the Batanes!
on Jul 2, 2010 photo lifted from this siteGreetings from the Northernmost province of the Philippines--barely a 150 km. from Taiwan! I think the roosters here even speak Taiwanese! Totally different crowing! photo lifted from this siteI will update the p...



hello from Batanes!
on Jul 2, 2010 in budget travel batanes The woman in this photo is wearing a "vacul." photo lifted from this siteGreetings from the tip of The Philippines!Honesty Cafe: the soda bottle and my social experiment. More to come!the time-warped Village of ChavayanThe landscape here is so r...



Where to?
on Jun 28, 2010Here I am again asking myself "what's next, RV?"The signs are written all over the place. And they only bear a stark contrast when I arrived here, wide-eyed and  dreamy two and a half years ago. It's the forked road again, inching its way to me...



We interrupt regular blogging...
on Jun 24, 2010...because a party is taking place right now in the campus where I am holed up.This last party of the season only mean one thing! The term has ended! Yoo-HOOO!See you when I'm sober!Cheers!



Bench: Uncut - A Bold Look At The Future - Ticket Information
on Jun 23, 2010 in style Hey fella travelers and style junkies! Get a free invite to the biggest annual fashion event in The Philippines (and actually making its way to China as well) with a minimum purchase from selected Metro Manila Bench, Herbench, Bench Body, and Superbe...



Manila Metropolitan Theater now a National Treasure
on Jun 23, 2010 in architecture I basked in its spotlight (hey, that was so friggin' glaring I couldn't see the audience, alright) when I was in my junior year in high school. Aunt H tagged me along (together with six of my cousins) to perform  a jive number during a Christmas...



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