Philippine Expedition
January 5, 2012
How great was Boracay? Let me tell you. It was alright. Kinda meh, actually. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not actually bitching here. But, if you came here thinking I was gonna rave, it’s not going to happen. It constantly threatened to storm on us. It never did, but it was windy and frequently we had mild showers. It was really too cool to go swimming. But I am certainly not blaming anybody for less than ideal weather. It happens. And I thank our lucky stars it didn’t pour the whole time, send us a hurricane or produce any flooding. So I sat on the beach most of our 4 days there, fully clothed and reading my books. It wasn’t cheap. Airfare was right up there, and the hotel was $100 a night and pretty crappy for that price. The beach was quite crowded. And travel time to get there was not as easy as I had hoped.
Now for the good things. Reading is a lovely way to spend some time. Also, getting away really keeps me from worrying about things. I can’t do anything about anything, so my brain really deactivates and completely clears. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way for Mark. So he spent most of his time reading work related stuff. Poor dude. The beach was lovely – white sands, waist high water for yards and yards out to play in for the two hours it wasn’t chilly, and the water was clean. Sitting at beach side, open air restaurants and bars always makes me happy. The highlights of the trip were probably the several times I found very small hermit crabs just wandering around the beach. So although it was expensive, a long trip, crappy weather and crowded it was great getting away and trying something new. And it certainly hasn’t dissuaded me from travel. In a couple of weeks I’m off to India. Yeah!
