To dream is to travel; to travel is to dream…

Remember to dream a little.

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Got the quote from http://www.travelhistory.org
Took the photo in Frankfurt, Germany in 2006

How, how, the carabao…

There are so many places we wanna go to, so many stories to discover, and there are also many issues in traveling that we need to know. Yet no one is telling us how.

Now, YTRIP will  

SUMMER BEACH MODE

The coolest thing to happen in the Pinoy travel industry…

At least to me. Haha. Very responsive, very creative. Makes you wanna get married for the heck of it! 

Fantastic idea, ROX!

On Travel and Blogging

Blogging has made venting, bashing, and self-expression sooo easy that we forget (most of the time) the need to put things in context when we type away.

Since I hit 23, the word RESPONSIBILITY has been on my back and it has become part of my writing, expressing, and even venting framework. True, it is easier to just go on and write, blog, and let the world know how you feel and when… but people tend to take things out of context and misinterpret most of what we say and post. No matter how many smileys you put in there, when you sound like you’re bitching, you are bitching  (even if you really werent). 

This post’s direction now, though, is on travel and blogging. When we travel, of course we write about our experiences – the good and the bad but I realized that whatever information we put out there, it becomes history and memory. People will recall. You will recall. And no matter what happens, because blogging is not censored, your post will be taken as truth. There may be doubt yes, but it is still – supposedly – close to the truth. 

 

  That’s why we should be    careful of what we say and  post, or at least – we should  be responsible with the way  we frame our words and  blogs. As a stickler for  propriety, we should always  have some level of respect  for everything we write    about – and this also shows  the level of respect we have  for ourselves. 

Travel and blogging have to have context. When we write, we have to have context so that readers would understand where we are coming from. 

Of late I have found people who wrote about complaints and insights gained from travel… and I appreciate all their thoughts and shares. What hit me though is sometimes, our personal insights – no matter how enlightened they would seem – need to be enriched and challenged. They need to be contextualized. 

… and after all the insights you generate, when you travel and blog, and share all of what you have learned, what does it make of you? 

The whole experience must have enriched you, whether it was good or bad… and hopefully, that kind of growth would show when you express yourself.

 

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Photo by Cherryl Si (c) 2009

My favorite words in travel

CONTENT. IMPACT. RESPONSIBILITY. ACCOUNTABILITY.  PAKIALAM. FRAMEWORK. OBJECTIVES. CONTEXT. FAIR.

 

LESSONS. 

 

Ayun.  In no particular order. 

 

The WHY will follow.

 

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photo by Cherryl Si (c) 2009, taken in Caluya, Antique. 
Orange background is the author.  

It’s time for girls to go!

Short talks from experienced solo-girl travellers plus a discussion on women travel in the Philippines.

Admission is FREE. Register at youthtrip@gmail.com / rox.cs@primegrp.com.