The Final Frontier

[sunsetter]

thats a lifeboat up the hill, wonder what the story is

[Dacrondude]

WOW! what an amazing place, thank you so much for sharing, I for one thought that all the pictures of the different structures where great( but then I am accused of taking too many pictures of buildings when I travel), looking forward to your next post.

[boes]

Super nice pics, thank you very much for the upload...

[WujouMao]

WOW! what an amazing place, thank you so much for sharing, I for one thought that all the pictures of the different structures where great( but then I am accused of taking too many pictures of buildings when I travel), looking forward to your next post.

Sadly that's all the travelling for me till i find some more money and go somewhere different, like S.America.

I went a bit overboard with my pics from Myanmar [Burma]is you'd like to have a butchers.

[Loy Toy]

Sadly that's all the travelling for me till i find some more money and go somewhere different, like S.America.

What a wonderful thread, very informative and great pictures.

Thank you.

[porno frank]

Good job. Real beautiful scenery of the countryside and the pics of the beach line.

[WujouMao]

SEAIR plane leaving Batanes


just dont understand it and have lost complete interest in doing anything more with youtube. The vids for burma and cambodia worked fine. Just dont want to work the same way anymore

[WujouMao]

give up. seriosuuily

[Talon]

Thanks WujouMao!

Great photos of Edinburgh. That's what it looked like. I expected a flock of sheep to come pouring across the road any minute. I lived in Luzon for 5 years and aside from the occasional weekend in Cebu, or Samar, I really didn't get to see much more of the Philippines than the view of bar girls from a low bar stool. I'm coming home in March with a brand new attitude. Thanks again for sharing. I'm brand new to the Teak Door but not Asia. I lived in Chiang Mai for a year. You either love, or hate Thailand. I happen to love it. I lived in Phnom Penh for a year too. Karma led me to the P.I. and as anyone who has spent more than a couple of years there, it's awfully damned hard to live anywhere else but my Filipina wife and kids are the main reason I am somewhat anchored in. There's always the one week excursions to anywhere in Asia. I rely a lot on those.

regards,

Talon

[WujouMao]

Thanks WujouMao!

Great photos of Edinburgh. That's what it looked like. I expected a flock of sheep to come pouring across the road any minute. I lived in Luzon for 5 years and aside from the occasional weekend in Cebu, or Samar, I really didn't get to see much more of the Philippines than the view of bar girls from a low bar stool. I'm coming home in March with a brand new attitude. Thanks again for sharing. I'm brand new to the Teak Door but not Asia. I lived in Chiang Mai for a year. You either love, or hate Thailand. I happen to love it. I lived in Phnom Penh for a year too. Karma led me to the P.I. and as anyone who has spent more than a couple of years there, it's awfully damned hard to live anywhere else but my Filipina wife and kids are the main reason I am somewhat anchored in. There's always the one week excursions to anywhere in Asia. I rely a lot on those.

regards,

Talon

That's great to hear. I love thailand too. the food is just awesome. But me, i'm still English. Never truely lived anywhere else other than England. To live somewhere qualifies me doing what i would do normally if i was living in UK, and not spending my time in the bars. I ve done that this year. And although i spent 6 months in Phils, i dont think ive really lived there.

Thanks for your post too and welcome to Teakdoor. Maybe you can get your family to have a look at other Philippine pics on this forum. There's lots to see if you havent ventured out much.

[forreachingme]

Great thread, thanks for sharing !

I just read a much shorter similar one, about Batanes, made on a blog of a french guy living near Manila, so i learned about this place just a couple of week before reading this one...

Tomorow they will get Typhoon Nalgae, but looks like the worst is for northern Luzon.

[WujouMao]

Great thread, thanks for sharing !

I just read a much shorter similar one, about Batanes, made on a blog of a french guy living near Manila, so i learned about this place just a couple of week before reading this one...

Tomorow they will get Typhoon Nalgae, but looks like the worst is for northern Luzon.

The Batanes gets typhoons practically all year. Only a small window of good weather in June for 2 months, then goes all tits up again.

Getting stuck on Batanes for 10 months of the year, or any of the other islands must be terrible for the locals as its normally only 1 way to reach there. a mahal plane for P7,700 one way.

[Talon]

Thanks WujouMao,

Yes, I suppose living in a cultural environment so different than the one you identify with as home tends to sharpen, rather than blur the edges of your national identity. I am originally from California but I lived for a decade in Europe, primarily Germany and the UK. I'll never forget when I had to leave Europe to return to California. I was beside myself with sadness until this old Bavarian fellow on the train from Munich to Frankfurt reminded me that the more languages one speaks, the more lives they live. I think it went something like; "Je mehr sprache lernt Man desto mehr leben kann er erfahren. Anyway it set me to thinking that I wasn't leaving Europe forever, that I could always return there in my mind. When you go back to jolly England your mental boundaries will have expanded and you will have the pictures to prove it even though you may, or may not have learned Tagalog during your stay.

cheers!

Talon

[heythere]

Wow. Very nice work. Thank you so much ....take care

[omgim]

Where did you stay? I dont' see a holiday inn anywhere?

[WujouMao]

I stayed in Ivatan Lodge in Basco, Batan Island.

[david44]

Excellent How long is the trip? Very few folks and many roofs in disrepair has their been an exodus due to volcanoe or higher wages on Luzon?

[WujouMao]

This isnt Luzon. Its a group of islands thats closer to Taiwan than the rest of the Philippines. Takes an hour to reach there by 12 seater plane.

[Jun]

Awsome pics ! Been to the PI many times always wondered what those islands were like Thanx

[SweRob]

Awesome, thank you so much for this.

After seeing those pictures i want to say "God is Great" even tough im an Atheist.