Road Trip

Jovan, Brother Mike and I went to Batangas last saturday, not thinking about the typhoon. Jovan and Mike were supposed to go around Batangas to check out the route of the Batangas Race. Since he went home at 4AM from a party, Mike didn't bring his bike anymore. Going to Batangas City was like going to a disaster area. There were trees on the road - big, uprooted trees - every 500 meters or so. Obviously, there wasn't going to be any ride. First stop was Goto King for breakfast. Brownout everywhere! Second stop was Tita Carme's house, where we ate santol and indian mangoes. YUMMY! Then we went to Atty's house - there, Jovan, Nilo and Atty discussed the race rules. Next stop was Tita Carme's house again - but this was a quick stop because we headed right away to SM Batangas City for lunch. We chose Flavors of China so that Jovan had many choices. We ended up shopping afterwards (shopping in SM Batangas!). Great finds really - two Batangueno shirts for Jovan and a martial law shirt for me. Cute! We left Batangas at 3PM, after they had drinks in Starbucks.

We didn't have a destination. We had four options, but we chose Caliraya, not knowing where we can stay there, but hoping for the best. The ride was interesting, what with three crazy people in the same car! We stopped over at Bay to buy monay, but unfortunately, ubos na. We arrived in Caliraya at around 6PM. First stop was Lagos del Sol - but we thought P1650/person was too expensive given that we arrived so late. If we were there for the whole day it would have been worth it. So we looked for another place. we ended up in Villa Ruthman - not bad really, P650/person for the venue and P150/person for two meals. By 8:30PM we were not doing anything anymore so we just ended up with kwento, more kwento, and some stupid ass magic. Ahahaha! Lights out by 11PM, but I had a hard time sleeping - I think I ended up sleeping at around 1AM.

The next day we had breakfast at around 9AM, then took off at around 10:30AM. We took the 'backdoor' route, and ended up in Antipolo and Marikina. And of course, as usual, it was a crazy ride. We checked out the Oakleys at Joven Bikeshop in Marikina, then had lunch at Kenny Rogers Katipunan.

Despite the typhoon, even if we didn't have plans, I really enjoyed and I would do it again anytime. (I'll probably get a place with a better bathroom though. :) )