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[Blastoff]

The Pig in a side car is so average and everyday i hardly notice it anymore, however imagine this one.

A hot day in Davao and the Spamhog is driving by the bus station in Davao, a
"weena" lines stops just in front of me and blocks the road. The foreman jumps out, opens the cargo area and removes some luggage and then (I swear im not making this up!!!) at least twenty goats all tethered on frayed rope leashs. Some skinny little pinoy farmer looking like charlie chaplin is trying to manage the animals. He was crossing the street in heavy traffic with the goats jumping and twisting around, people in their Pajeros swerving and braking/honking etc. He made it wiothout a casualty. it was something out of a Mad TV routine. Took me five minutes to stop laughing.


Spamhog

I fully believe you there. I to have seen some amazing things that we would never imagine in the West.

[Spam Hog]

Blastoff's reports are well written as usual, I enjoy reading them ! :)

Pig tranportation in 3rd World can be unorthodox for some of us (some won't like it):

The Pig in a side car is so average and everyday i hardly notice it anymore, however imagine this one.

A hot day in Davao and the Spamhog is driving by the bus station in Davao, a
"weena" lines stops just in front of me and blocks the road. The foreman jumps out, opens the cargo area and removes some luggage and then (I swear im not making this up!!!) at least twenty goats all tethered on frayed rope leashs. Some skinny little pinoy farmer looking like charlie chaplin is trying to manage the animals. He was crossing the street in heavy traffic with the goats jumping and twisting around, people in their Pajeros swerving and braking/honking etc. He made it wiothout a casualty. it was something out of a Mad TV routine. Took me five minutes to stop laughing.


Spamhog

[Blastoff]

Its news to me thaat their are waves in Samar. Where on Samar ar they? Got a bunch of buddies tha t would like to go. Will a budget of $150 dailey do it?

Hi,

Hahaha $150 per day? You will live like the Sultan of Brunei.

Everything is cheap there. You will be hard pressed to spend that much including girls. You can spend as little as $200 per week and still have a good time in the provinces.

Enjoy.

[Blastoff]

I love your attitude. I'm stuck (well, more like stuck in paradise) 7 days a week in Manila due to work, but I'd be doing the same in a heartbeat if I could get out of here. Funny how that one old guy was going moralistic on you. Most of us know YOU ARE THE MAN, but unfortunately, jealousy does raise its ugly head on occasion. I usually look for the new, province types in the bars, but there is nothing like the real thing.

How was internet access in Samar and Leyte. I have to download about 8MB of files per day for business, so anywhere I go must have access to at least an internet cafe that I can conect my laptop to.

Thanks for your comments.

Surprisingly, broadband internet is available in both Tacloban and Catbalogan. There are many internet cafes in each city. I suggest you go to the air-conditioned ones as they usually have the fastest internet.

Cheers.

[Blastoff]

Blastoff's reports are well written as usual, I enjoy reading them ! :)

Pig tranportation in 3rd World can be unorthodox for some of us (some won't like it):

Oh my God! That is a classic pic far my imaginative then my pig storey in the trike side car.

Thanks for that.

[LoveAsianWhores]

Leyte

She said, “So you will call me tomorrow?” I replied “Of Course LOL.” I just left out the word NOT at the end.

I suggest you hit them hard, hit them fast, then get the fuck out of there. Lol.

I love your attitude. I'm stuck (well, more like stuck in paradise) 7 days a week in Manila due to work, but I'd be doing the same in a heartbeat if I could get out of here. Funny how that one old guy was going moralistic on you. Most of us know YOU ARE THE MAN, but unfortunately, jealousy does raise its ugly head on occasion. I usually look for the new, province types in the bars, but there is nothing like the real thing.

How was internet access in Samar and Leyte. I have to download about 8MB of files per day for business, so anywhere I go must have access to at least an internet cafe that I can conect my laptop to.

[AfAsia]

blastoff mate,

very nice report once again, i,`m sure and it seems like, you are the envy of numerous mongers amoungst us. keep up the groundbreaking reports.

speed13

[Skay33]

Blastoff's reports are well written as usual, I enjoy reading them ! :)

Pig tranportation in 3rd World can be unorthodox for some of us (some won't like it):

[Blastoff]

The bamboo floor you see was in the bamboo hut I slept it one night. The naked girl in the bed was in the Rollet hotel and the other girl was in the park with me. That's me in the trike.

Enjoy

[Blastoff]

Blastoff's report reminded me why I still bother with the ISG, despite the undesireable elements that frequent the PI folders in particular.

Great, uncrowded waves in Samar have intrigued me since my first visit to the PI back in '94. Used to be an NPA hotbed in the late 80s and early 90s. I have met so many girls in Angeles from Samar it is amazing there are any left. LOL

Looking forward to the banca trip and photos.

Thanks for your comments. NPA still exists in Samar but they seem to be consecrated in the east not the west. I did checkout my facts before I left lol.

It is truly a great place but not for the foolish or the faint hearted as you can get yourself into trouble there by being silly but usually you can buy your way out. Ahh the beauty of 3rdworld countries. ;)

Take care when travelling there

[Surfer]

Blastoff's report reminded me why I still bother with the ISG, despite the undesireable elements that frequent the PI folders in particular.

Great, uncrowded waves in Samar have intrigued me since my first visit to the PI back in '94. Used to be an NPA hotbed in the late 80s and early 90s. I have met so many girls in Angeles from Samar it is amazing there are any left. LOL

Looking forward to the banca trip and photos.

[Blastoff]

From Tacloban in Leyte where the airplane lands, it is about a two and a half hour road trip north in an air-conditioned van leaving from either the Tacloban office of Grand Tours or there is now a new van depot about 10 minutes out of town. There you can catch all the van companies who travel all over Samar and Leyte. The trip to Catbalogan varies from company to company but ranges from 100 pesos to 150 pesos per person each way. Vans leave bout every 30 minutes in day time hours so there is no need to book.

Once in Catbalogan, I stayed at the Rolet Hotel which is reputably the best hotel in town and is centrally located and girl friendly. The rack rate was 950 pesos per night for a double room so I didn’t negotiate. The hotel has air-con rooms and is clean and well maintained but the rooms have no windows so it feels a little bit like a jail cell lol. Girl friendly for sure in fact the receptionist was VERY interested in visiting me in my room but as she was in her early thirties and had a Mommy tummy, I was not interested.

Catbalogan is a small city on the sea. It is typical of many small cities in the Philippines. The only difference is that the girls working in shops and walking on the street and riding in trikes are VERY forward in speaking with you and asking if you have a girl friend and if you are interested to get to know them with the view of being their boy friend. Everywhere I went I was constantly hit on by non-pros. It was quiet a blast. A new (small) shopping mall was opened the day I arrived. The city was buzzing with people coming from the provinces to check it out. It was a crap mall to our standards.

There are two bars I found while I was there. They are NOT like Angeles City bars LOL. They are normal bars where the locals go to drink and have fun on weekends but due to the popularity of me being a foreigner, it is too easy to pick up. The name of the biggest bar is “Eclipse” and the other one was undergoing renovations and was going to re-open in November 2006. It was formally know and “”Mads” but was changing it’s name to “Sooners” the Manager told me. They both have bands playing on weekends and the places are packed. Easy pickings but don’t be too loud and aggressive as the local boys take offence to this behaviour in this small town and they will likely have something to say about it. Just be low key and chat to girls who give you the eye. It’s that easy.

The girls here don’t ask for money. They go with you to try and convince you to be their boy friend and eventually support them financially. Yes even here the girls have agendas lol.

It is dead easy to pick up in this town any time of the day or night just by walking around. In the days I was there I saw only one foreigner on the street other than myself.

I was told by a few trike drivers that they can arrange pros to your room if you want them for between 500 and 1,000 pesos but I am guessing that the girls would most likely be a friend or a relative of the driver.



Trike rides here are the cheapest I have ever seen at 3 pesos per person and 95% of the trikes have no engines just bicycles strapped to a sidecar lol. Amazingly they use these trikes for transporting anything not only people. I saw several large black pigs transported alive on a pedal trike lol. I wonder if the pig had the right change when it arrived at its destination J.

Everything is noticeably cheap. The cost of living here is amazingly low. Restaurants, transport, cloths, food (fresh fish in the markets is as low as 50 pesos a kilo) everything is just so cheap compared to Manila or Angeles City, I would say 50% to 80% less. You could live like a king here on USD$200 per week including rent and electricity.

I walked around the first day and was propositioned by several shop assistance. I chose a 19-year-old girl who said she was originally from Manila. We met after work, had a bite to eat close by, and then went to my room. Easy as that most times unless they are virgins. Then they will want you to marry them so be aware, as their Families will hunt you down if you take her cherry and dump her and stay in town. I picked up other girls most anywhere. They will all be smiling and giggling as you walk past. Just smile back and ask them their name and you are in. It is that easy there.

Advice.

As I mentioned in my Leyte report, this is not the place to be a playboy for a long time. You will get brothers and Family members of girls you banged knocking on your door if you hang around for a while. If you pass through for a few days or a week you should be fine. Any longer, get yourself a girlfriend, threat her well and enjoy.

I also took a scary motorised canoe ride in open ocean to Daram Island, a very remote part of Samar. That report will come later.

Pics to follow.

[Skay33]

It sounds like nice Miss Maui brought you to a point to feel guilty and you should have pitty on her.

But reading your story I guess she is professional enough to know what she does and how it (almost always) ends when dating a traveler. Unlikely her first date with a foreigner.

She piled on the pressure and the reaction will - more often than not - be as your's reported here.

It seems to me that either she thought she can get the gift fast and for free (without working for it) or she is somehow fallen behind.

But I tip on the former and with her two kids she has had already experience with the opposite gender and so was given the chance to learn about life.

You probably had the logistical dilemma because which guy want to run into Maui again and discuss with her that issue? Even when you know she is playing her game, the situation is not so comfortable that you wanna get into it unsolicited.

My conclusion is that the moral dilemma is on her side and given that she doesn't deserve it any better until she adapts to realism or honesty.

[HarryDHo]

Without retrieving maps and old documents, I'll try to tell about when I went to Palawan in 2001 for 5 weeks. I was recovering from back surgery and a horrible divorce. The flight o Manila was the usual long monotonous experience. Long story short, I met an unemployed nurse hottie in Quezon City and asked her if she wanted to go with me to a resort in Palawan. At first, she wanted to bring a companion but, then I said that I couldn't take two. She eventually came with me on the grounds that I get her her own room and that I pay her for being my nurses. I really didn't need a nurse because the resort had a Dr there who came in and was to report to my Dr in the US if my stainless steele seutures became abnormally red. We got a flight to Palawan via PI airlines. It was so cheap, I can't remember how much unless I looked at my old documents. We landed on this airport, there were goats tied up at the terminal. A jeep employed by the resort took us to the boat area. I had to lay down on my stomach during the ride from the terminal to the dock. We passed through several villages that had only bamboo huts and no electricity ever... a basketball court in the center of the village. One thing you should know: Even the good girl Filipinas are the horniest women on earth. There are 35 year old virgins all over the PI. I rubbed my nurse's smooth brown legs the entire ride. When she stood up, she had a steam of wetness down her leg she couldn't control. This poor thing was about to be deflowered. The driver dropped us off at a dock. The dock was about 3/4 mile long leading through swamps to a boat dock. The boat ride was aout 45 min and took us to a small island where the resort was located. Although most things in the PI are cheap, that resort was outrageously expensive. The resort was full of Euro families who took all the overpriced canoo tours around the island in through caves. My nurse had her room for one night but, she never stayed in it. She moved in with me the 2nd night. I rehabbed by walking up the mountain, eventually every day 3 times-a-day. The first few days, sex was very painful for her. After the 4th time, she was insatiable. It was 5 weeks of sex and mountain hiking. I was coming off a divorce and didn't want a fast relationship. I wish I didn't have to break her heart.

[Surfer]

no difficulkty finding one to go witrh you, but Palawan is the frontier and even PP is a mere town, not a city.