Inn Rocio Baguio

... en fait d Hawai, et elle insiste bien sur sa nationalite americaine. Je retourne vers la ville par la simili plage, me fait copieusement asperger par quelques vagues, et me fait transporter finalement vers un autre resort ou la plage est semble-t-il plus belle. Quelques cinquantenaire blancs bien gras, flanques de leur locale, se desabusent autour d un billard, un wkisky a la main. Moi je m en fous, j ai mon bouquin... Demain, je devrais repartir plus au nord, a Vigan. Bizatous ERic

... made the last one look like a pleasure cruise. We were only going 130km but it was over the highest mountain roads in the Philippines, a lot of which were unpaved and bumpy as hell. Rachel got her head bounced off the roof a few times! 7 hours of ass numbing torture later and we arrived here in Baguio. Its a fairly big city and a lot like Manila in some ways. Our plan is to stay one night and then head back to Manila tomorrow morning where we should hopefully be able to sort out ...

... Ireland!... The next day we journeyed into the mountains to Bagiou, where we went to Cafe by the Ruins, and finally experienced some tasty organic eats! Not mention their Divine organic Philippino arabica coffee, which Eileen and Helen relished in several cups, as this was no ordinary brew, it was light, delicious and tasty, without the side effects of a usual cup of coffee. It was coffee for the tea drinkers!..hmm heavenly! That afternoon we went ...

... Scout in my Mom instantly came out and we enjoyed a wonderful day at the farm. Sitting in the Nipa Hut (native house) eating freshly picked organic veggies from the garden, drinking Auntie Olive's famous organic lemon grass tea, enjoying the peaceful serene sacred space that ENCA Farm truly is. I continually feel so blessed to be apart of the all too important work of protecting the watershed of ENCA and sharing the Cosalan's families amazing story of never giving up ...

... were nice and i enjoyed the surf. It's back to the usual dribble this morning though, so I thought I better get a jeepney into San Fernando and check out the progress of the new Typhoon forming in the pacific. True to form it's supposed to intensify and head straight for me. So 2 more days of surfing for me and then a mad scramble back to Manila to beat the storm, which has a chance of becoming a super-typhoon. I'm a natural disaster magnet..

... at the farm but in all reality two years is not either. It is such a special space and I feel so fortunate to be apart of its restoration and development as a community lead and run environmental education space. Our adventures just keep getting better and better, on Sunday afternoon we headed to Sagada in Mountain Province about 7 hours north of my site. Next update about our time in Sagada and Banue in Ifugao Province coming soon! Sending love, peace, and hugs to all! Sherry

... One more! Some other scenes from the road. Local delivery, competition for Fedex? And a meat market, almost makes me want to be a vegetarian. Still not much of a night life in Baguio, but we once again managed to make our own fun. Our driver Mike with my brother and me enjoying some San Miguel. As we continued on from Baguio the road kept getting higher and the scenery more beautiful.

... which are comparable to the villages we saw on Malapasque. The back beach is nice, but not as maintained as the front, and the kids from the village were all over playing and swimming. It was a nice hike, but it was really hot and we were all pretty tired so we went back and relaxed some more. We were all pretty set into a vacation state of mind by this point as the program was quickly coming to an end. I was getting really excited for Hong Kong, and today was when I ...

... most random topics, and smoked weed literally the entire time we saw him. It was so crazy. He was quite the character, and somehow thought that we were the crazy one's as he told us through some old English saying that I can't remember but was something like, everyone is crazy except me and thee, but even thee can be crazy at times... He was nuts, but he did a lot of hiking and had a mute girlfriend who we met as well. She really didn't talk at all, she could ...

... with these women!! They are all so welcoming and warm!!



Today before heading to Baguio I had lunch with the Municipal Council in Acop. The gender dynamic challenges I will face here really started to hit in. The council is entirely made of men and while I think they will be supportive of my work dealing with constantly being asked if I will marry a local is going to be challenging! While men appear to hold all the power in the ...