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Introducing Padre Burgos

February 19, 2010

Our first day in Padre Burgos we checked into what seemed like the last available accommodation option in this tiny village in Southern Leyte. We’re staying in a little concrete bungalow that sits at the top of a rock face with views of Sogod Bay. We access a rocky beach and magnificent snorkeling (untouched reefs [...]

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Kawasan Falls

February 13, 2010

A short ride from Moalboal lies find Kawasan Falls: three waterfalls (or four depending on who you ask) cascading down a river, next to which you can hike a palm tree lined trail. The water is — just look at the pictures for yourself — we’ve tried to describe this blue-green-seemingly-unnatural color and just can’t [...]

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Freediving

February 12, 2010

Freediving: the art of diving on a single breath.
Sounds very simple and in principle it is, but good freediving requires strong discipline, physiology, and training. After a little research I began to understand what freediving really is and became fascinated. The beauty of the sport is the simplicity and naturalness. With just a mask and [...]

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Island Life in the Philippines

February 12, 2010

We spent a week in a little guesthouse on Panagsama beach in Moalboal. The door to our room opened onto a porch that faced the beach: a small sandy and rocky patch, with calm waves lapping, barely covering a wonderland of coral, and in the distance the mountainous outline of the island of Negros. The [...]

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Bunk Beds

February 12, 2010

Do you ever find yourself talking to an inanimate object like wood? Let’s say something like a plywood platform that makes the base of the bunkbed above your head. This has been the case for a few recent guesthouses in which the only private room Becca and I can get is, well, a room with [...]

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Joy of the Journey

February 7, 2010

Someone asked me recently how we’ve been traveling, as in: How do you get from point A to point B? Using every mode of transportation available, usually the cheapest, is the real answer. But traveling is more than that, and as an example I’ve described in detail a trip we took a few days ago [...]

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