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What are your travel plans for 2015?

The first three months of the year just breezed us by. I bet some travel enthusiasts have already made their vacation plans for this year. What about you? There’s just so much to visit and see around us, whether it is a nearby forest park or mountain resort or a faraway exotic destination. Personally, I […]

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Road trip during the busiest month

One of the busiest months that took away most of my work hours was last December 2012 when we brought along our van and went on a road trip and traveled between two islands via inter-island vessel or barge. It’s just too sad that we were not able to tour more because our van broke […]

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Vehicle maintenance before a road trip

Before a holiday road trip, it is important to evaluate your vehicle and be prepared with the trip essentials. You just can’t risk your vacation being ruined with some car breakdown, right? Change the oil and check if the fluid levels are normal, i.e. transmission fluids, wind shield wiper fluids and brake fluids. Don’t postpone […]

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Car shopping: Time to replace our trusty van

Our trusty Mitsubishi van broke down again last Sunday. What a disappointment indeed. We were about to go to the mall for some groceries, as we have some guests for dinner the next day, when the van broke down right beside our gate. Sigh. We’ve traveled on a lot of lengthy road trips with our […]

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Going on a road trip soon? Be well-prepared!

Family road trips are fun yet require a lot of preparation especially if the travel time would be more than 6 hours. When we traveled to Cebu, a province in another island, we brought along our trusty van. But weeks before the scheduled trip, we made sure to prepare the vehicle as the trip involved […]

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Getting your vehicle ready for travel

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 […]

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Home at last

Finally I’m home here in Negros Occidental from Cebu. We had to leave early Saturday morning to catch the 7:30 AM barge trip at the Toledo City pier. We arrived just in time! Thanks to the South Coastal Road from the Plaza Independencia to the Talisay district, where Dad speedily made it within 10 minutes, […]