I am back!

One famous Chinese writer (Lin Yutang) once said, “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

It’s SO true. :-)

Two weeks may not be enough for (some) hardcore travelers but for me, two weeks of being away is enough to miss my smelly pillows and my good ol’ creaky bed. I realized that just last night as I was lying down on my own bed, all smiled up while looking up at our cobwebby ceiling. :-)

Experiencing the traffic, smelling that familiar polluted city air, and hearing those proverbial language calling me, “hoy! and pssst!” make me all feel home again.

Often, I realize one important thing everytime I come back from a travel: I am appreciating the Philippines all the more. Not to say that this country is the most wonderful place in the world (because it is certainly NOT), but I am simply loving (and appreciating) it all the more. I don’t know why but I guess it is an innate thing. And like I always say, even if it’s the worst place in the world, there is nowhere else I would rather be! Yeeba.

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[Postscript:]

I will be posting the details of this two-week travel once I’ve sorted the thousands of photos I have taken.

Here’s my travel route:

Manila-Thailand-Siem Reap-Pnom Pehn-Ho Chi Minh City-Singapore-Manila