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Comments on: The Early Bus To Baguio https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/ The Expeditioner is a travel site for the avid traveler, featuring travel articles, videos and news. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.11 By: The Early Bus to Baguio « write.travel.love. https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3802 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:32:52 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3802 […] Originally published on The Expeditioner 13 December 2010 (http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/) […]

]]> By: Sasha Raskin https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3583 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:09 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3583 great peice jude, and can totally see ken doing bribing the driver to do that just to fake you out!

]]> By: Michele Moran https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3565 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:00:12 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3565 So glad that Ken made the bus….I can imagine what kind of a look you gave him!!!! LOL

]]> By: brokenrecordbaby https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3556 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:50:37 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3556 Intense story. My heart was really beating faster as the bus was about to leave Ken behind!

]]> By: jon https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3529 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:07:50 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3529 Jude- I had a similar, although not as intense, bus trip south of Manila. Your story brings back wonderful memories.

]]> By: Nick https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3518 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:14:09 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3518 Can totally relate to the whole bus-pulling-off-while-companion-not-on-it wig out! Glad it turned out okay.

Nice story!

]]> By: Jude Polotan https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3497 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:11:25 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3497 In reply to alicia Faatz.

Ha! I'm not saying the customs are "weird," just different–and I always say, vive la difference! Maraming salamat for the comment.

]]> By: Jude Polotan https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3496 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:59:28 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3496 In reply to Jimmy Roa.

Jimmy,

Of course It's true that most Filipinos speak English, but my experience was that outside Manila it was not the "default" language, and the vendors, fellow bus passengers at least didn't choose to speak it with me! :-P

]]> By: Luke Maguire Armstrong https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3495 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:59:42 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3495 Great article Jude, told brilliantly. It sounds like you and Ken had quite the adventure. It sounds like you have some fun in-laws.

]]> By: Jimmy Roa https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3494 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:06:55 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3494 May I add though that most Filipinos speak english, albeit "broken" english at times.

]]> By: Jimmy Roa https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3493 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:27 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3493 Jude, interesting and very well written. As a Filipino who's witnessed these events first hand at one time or another, I wouldn't be able to narrate it any better… it's like reliving a bus ride to Baguio.

]]> By: alicia Faatz https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3491 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:13:04 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3491 Jude, your highly candid description of The Filipino ways and weird customs were clearly articulated in your article. Go on, continue on your literary and artistic pursuit, an obssession, your dream which I know is just right there. Move on, baby! Alice

]]> By: morganpolotan https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3490 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:54:02 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3490 This was an easy read Jude! You really are a great writer; the Expeditioner was smart to pick you up. I look forward to more travel writing from you.

P.S. I'm still glad I stayed behind on this trip :-)

]]> By: khalsaken https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3481 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:01:06 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3481 You really have a gift for prose. Your description of the bus, the Filipino passengers, even the scent of the pork BBQ, really made me feel I was actually there traveling with you on this trip. Whoa, wait…. I was actually there with you! Seriously, this post made me reminisce all the fun we had in the land they used to call "Pearl of the Orient." Nice job and keep writing.

]]> By: Jude Polotan https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3480 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:53:53 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3480 In reply to Stephen St. Germain.

Ah, what happens next!? Thanks for asking!

We arrive in Baguio, where it is quite chilly and rainy…Ken loses his digital camera in the men's room at the bus depot…we check into a hotel with no heat and drink delicious native grown coffee…we get in-room massages from blind massage therapists…that evening we go to a "club" with a warning painted on the wall: NO MAN-TO-MAN DANCING…next day, shopping in a market, I thwart a pickpocket and eat crab kamayan style–with my hands.

What fun memories!

]]> By: Stephen St. Germain https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3479 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:46:36 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3479 Thanks for bringing a world far away to our desktops. Informative and fun, with the inevitable charms, obstacles and drama that all of us travelers experience in exotic places. Only one thing: what happens next?!

]]> By: carl brush https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3478 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:49:57 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3478 Neat, Jude,
I forwarded this to my Filipino-American son-in-law. I'm sure he and his folks will enjoy it as much as I did and will identify with it much more.

carl Brush

]]> By: LeslieTravel https://www.theexpeditioner.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/the-early-bus-to-baguio/#comment-3468 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:58:21 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=9297#comment-3468 Great travel essay! I can relate to your experience of anxiety as you have no idea what is going on! Guess the local custom is to dart to the moving bus at the last minute… thankfully Ken knew the drill :)

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