Manila, PH- I knew I was born to roam. In spite of my parents’ objections, I learned to commute at a young age. I saved my allowances for a weekend somewhere other than my house. I simply can not stay in one place and if I do, I know deep in my heart that I’m missing a lot of things..there are places waiting to be explored and millions of possibilities in store for me.
Who doesn’t like shopping? Compared to others, I don’t use much of my money shopping but I use it to get somewhere – north or south, beach or mountain, city or rural, quiet or chaotic. So while my sisters and other friends have closets filled with clothes and shoes, I have memories of Broadway, the busy streets of Manhattan, and the stillness of suburban Baltimore on an autumn morning.
I would not know how it feels to actually buy a $200 pair of shoes but I definitely remember how happy my friends and I were when we found a 2 dollar tunic in Siem Reap. Good thing my sisters and I have the same shoe size!
I may not be able to enjoy eating in fancy restos right now but I know nothing compares to authentic Viet cuisine in Ben Thanh market. Champagne is good, Cuba Libre shared with friends and interesting people after a day’s trip around Sagada is better, but a good conversation after seeing L.A.'s The Getty Museum is still on top of my list.
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5 on the floor: Out of grad school and on to our next challenge! After all that studying, it's time to have fun and find our big adventure.
When we're not doing the 9-5 thing we like to pseudobackpack.The oxymoronic mantra: trying to rough it in style.
We're good friends and travel buddies who are now separated by four time zones (Jan and Risa in Manila, Justine in
This little blog's been up since June 2007 to keep us connected (along with our common love for travel, music and cherva). Hopefully we can be reunited in some remote paradise in a year's time. Stay tuned and see how we go from here to there.
2006: The First Official Pseudobackpackers Trip: Vietnam for pho-rever, great coffee, and army tanks. Happy pizzas and jamming with a Pinoy band in Pnom Penh. Wat adventures and Pub Street misadventures over at Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2007: Sagada, Philippines is where we came up with more travel plans. Justine moved to Singapore, Ditas to New Jersey and Joy to California.
2008: We conquered South America! It was a blast when we... did the samba and saw Christ the Redeemer in Brasil... hiked up Macchu Picchu and the Sacred Valley in
2009: Trips thus far (collectively & separately): Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Spain, and Portugal.
2010: Mission:
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Justine did Flirty and 30 in Bali with Jan & Risa (who made a side trip to Taipei). Miss 30 then enjoyed rugby (and more) in HK. Hot momma Joy is back in California with her boys. And Deets is getting her fill of sangria and soccer in Spain and Portugal!
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3 comments:
nice to meet you joy!
i'm bored to death and too tired from work but i know i have gotta read something that could be my "today's food for the soul"...and yeah after some conversation in ym with ate joy, she gave me one hell of an idea...go over their blog and relish its substance! i am a twenty something person and though i'm not a girl like the authors of this blogspot, i can very well relate to their "wants" and "needs", their dreams and aspirations.
Like them, I’m also wanting to have some adventure in my life…young as I am, I want to explore and roam and learn some more…I totally agree with them when they say that life isn’t about confining yourself in the classroom, boardroom or operating room...sometimes we should go out and experience life in its rawness…maybe travel to a distant place and discover some new culture or just go out in the streets of manila and spend some time with the street kids…their smiles could give you a different kind of energy and bring you some ecstacy…and yes, even listening to good music can be a fun exploit. There are a hundred and one things that you can do…and I believe, after reading everything, that there is a “backpacker’s” spirit in all of us!
I know I’m putting this comment under one of the articles, but believe me when I say that I’ve read through each blog…I enjoyed everything and now I have a new mission, I may not become one of them but I’m resolved to be on an adventure-filled backpacking trip in this thing called life!
i'm bored to death and too tired from work but i know i have gotta read something that could be my "today's food for the soul"...and yeah after some conversation in ym with ate joy, she gave me one hell of an idea...go over their blog and relish its substance! i am a twenty something person and though i'm not a girl like the authors of this blogspot, i can very well relate to their "wants" and "needs", their dreams and aspirations.
Like them, I’m also wanting to have some adventure in my life…young as I am, I want to explore and roam and learn some more…I totally agree with them when they say that life isn’t about confining yourself in the classroom, boardroom or operating room...sometimes we should go out and experience life in its rawness…maybe travel to a distant place and discover some new culture or just go out in the streets of manila and spend some time with the street kids…their smiles could give you a different kind of energy and bring you some ecstacy…and yes, even listening to good music can be a fun exploit. There are a hundred and one things that you can do…and I believe, after reading everything, that there is a “backpacker’s” spirit in all of us!
I know I’m putting this comment under one of the articles, but believe me when I say that I’ve read through each blog…I enjoyed everything and now I have a new mission, I may not become one of them but I’m resolved to be on an adventure-filled backpacking trip in this thing called life!
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