my pseudobackpack

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 Singapore, Joy in Los Angeles, and Ditas in Neptune, New Jersey).

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 Peru... and watched a tango show and joined a rally in Argentina... Tudo bom!

2009: Trips thus far (collectively & separately): Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Spain, and Portugal.

2010: Mission: Greece, Morocco and Turkey. Perhaps Hungary? Time to save up them pennies and centavos again...