Things I Learned as a Nomadic Single Mom
Oh, this year 2015 has flown quickly since the day I decided to take my then 3-year old son, Elmo with me on our first travel together. I didn’t prepare much except for the places that I...
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Our lives behind Cambodian Street Food
Whenever someone asks me what I am doing in Siem Reap, I give them these answers: hosting travelers, going around the city on a bicycle, hopping from one swimming pool to another and eating...
Viet Ville: Authentic Vietnamese food in the middle of Palawan
The first time I visited Palawan last May 2014, one of the main food I was munching on was Chao Long – a Filipino-Vietnamese dish that has been made into one of Puerto Princesa’s...
Philippines’ Balut vs. Cambodia’s Pong Tia Koon
I felt like I’m home and nostalgic of my childhood days when I saw a balut vendor while I was having coffee with my travel buddy along Pub Street. We’ve been here for a week now,...
Seeing Through Recycled Bottles
I am very much happy to write something about a very good friend I have met while we were volunteering together during the first few months after typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan left our country devastated. Luckily,...
Ima’s Gulay Bar: A haven for traveling vegetarians
Philippines is the least place you would want to go traveling if you are a vegetarian. Because us, Filipinos are used to eating meat, fish and dairy products even if vegetables are widely available...
5 Reasons why Your Child Will Love Hibiscus
Hibiscus or popularly known as Gumamela to us Filipinos is one of the most common ornamental plants we can see around the neighborhood. Behind that sweet and colorful beauty is a plant that can...
BalikBalay: Rebuilding Families
As the new year 2015 greeted me with a positive energy, I am also about to start another volunteer project — Balik Balay Shelter for Typhoon (Yolanda) Survivors. The said project has been originally...
Taste of Rain
Elmo’s first taste of the rain in the island of Camotes Let’s teach our children about the rain, the beauty of sunshine, how the wind brush their faces by letting them play in...
