sonjack2847 Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Travelling here for me also depends on school holidays.As said above the contrast is not that great so what you see in one town is probably the same as the last one you visited. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JDDavao II Posted August 10, 2017 Popular Post Posted August 10, 2017 I'm here on a Balikbayan visa so I "vacation" once a year. The first year we went to Singapore while the Indonesian fires raged, covering the city-state with haze. The second year, we went back to see what we missed. Next month, we're going to Hong Kong. We want to go to Australia next. I've been to Boracay a couple of times. A couple of months back, while the authorities chased the last Abus around the island, we went to Bohol. When we travel locally, we like to do so with another couple who are our good friends. As others have said, there isn't as much contrast, as much "pull", to visit places here as there was to visit here from back "home". Traveling with others adds a layer of enjoyment that makes it worth it, for us. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuya John Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Maybe that's the thrill for me, when over in Phil visiting the wifes family, to travel to other places also. With 7000+ there is still a few I'm yet to visit. Have never got bored apart from circumstances that found me in Manila for nine days in humidity that was unbearable. Next trip would possibly include El Nido Palawan or Oslob Cebu so much to see and do, maybe that changes when living there permanently. Cheers guys n girls 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Queenie O. Posted August 10, 2017 Popular Post Posted August 10, 2017 For me travel isn't all that it used to be, and in spite of future plans to travel that we had planned previously, and thought we'd do that we were living permanently here, we find day trips to Cebu City and discovering what the city has to offer is satisfying and fun. There are some islands and places that I'd like to see in the future, but lately I'm pretty content to stay where I am a good amount of the time. We are on the water and it's pretty quiet and mellow here, so I get lazy just thinking about picking up and traveling for long or even short vacations. When I first moved here I dreamed about when my first trip back to the US would be, but now being here a little over three years, I don't think so much about that anymore. I think that to embrace the future you have to put aside your past in some aspects to a point, so trips back to my old place are not a burning desire right now. By next year Cebu's airport will be expanded and offering more and cheaper flights to many places, so eventually we'll take advantage of travel I guess. Not mentioned, and what is a big factor, is the cost of travel. There are so many concrete places to put your money, and with a buffer being important to have, sometimes travel seems rather frivolous s to me personally. and not something I can or would like to justify. Getting and settling here was some of the most travel I'll ever want to do! I do think sometimes that I'd like to get on a plane and fly back to my favorite city, San Francisco, maybe even just for a long weekend. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuya John Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 (edited) Sounds idyllic just where you live Queenie, Point being, is there a time when you feel homesick ( for USA), or get the wanderlust, even when where you live, is all you dreamed of? Is it just me, but each place I visited, wherever that has been, always seemed to offer that something I didn't have back home. Maybe it was the freedom from the daily drudge trying to fit everything into a working day. Now I'm retired, life is more relaxing and travelling is part of looking for that hidden gem which might just tempt me enough to throw caution to the wind sell up and go. Chasing your dreams keeps you young, even if you never catch them......JB Edited August 10, 2017 by Kuya John correction 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Old55 Posted August 10, 2017 Forum Support Posted August 10, 2017 17 hours ago, sonjack2847 said: No alarm but my body clock still wakes me at 530 am.Had a lie in this morning 6am wow. During my visits I normally would wake about the same time. Drinking coffee and watching the sun rise. If you don't mind my asking what time do you go to bed? About 9:39PM for me but the family is up past midnight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonjack2847 Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 12 hours ago, Kuya John said: Maybe that's the thrill for me, when over in Phil visiting the wifes family, to travel to other places also. With 7000+ there is still a few I'm yet to visit. Have never got bored apart from circumstances that found me in Manila for nine days in humidity that was unbearable. Next trip would possibly include El Nido Palawan or Oslob Cebu so much to see and do, maybe that changes when living there permanently. Cheers guys n girls I lived up the road from Oslob and as you say when you live there it becomes same same.Small towns are very nice to visit but I lived in one for four yeras and it does get boring. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonjack2847 Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 4 hours ago, Old55 said: During my visits I normally would wake about the same time. Drinking coffee and watching the sun rise. If you don't mind my asking what time do you go to bed? About 9:39PM for me but the family is up past midnight. About midnight I only ever needed six hours sleep.Up with the roosters I am. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert k Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 3 hours ago, sonjack2847 said: About midnight I only ever needed six hours sleep.Up with the roosters I am. So you get up at 2am with the roosters? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Peterson Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 Just now, robert k said: So you get up at 2am with the roosters? Kev would not sleep too much around my way, the damn roosters don't sleep either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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