Our recent road trip to Cebu via the mountainous terrains of Don Salvador Benedicto municipality taught us some valuable lessons in road travel. While we did prepare our van days before; a technician even came here to troubleshoot and do some maintenance jobs on it, the van was not prepared for something else, the mysterious “magnetic hill” phenomenon somewhere along the mountains which seem to pull vehicles against its normal course going to San Carlos City. I guess that “force” had an effect on the van as it had difficulty climbing up the winding roads in that area where the magnetic field was strongest. Its engine was not prepared for such an opposite pull as we drove onwards to San Carlos City. It gave such pressure to the engine that when we arrived in Cebu, the van was already acting up, even stopping in the midst of the traffic.
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