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The Mindanao Adventure was a few months in the generating.
The original strategy was only for Siargao for a great weekend of surfing. But the island’s Lilliputian airport meant smaller sized planes, and as a result more pricey plane tickets, so getting the cheapskate that I am I looked at bigger cities near by for less costly tickets. Right after reading numerous blogs, I calculated that our very best bet was to land at Davao, then use the savings to make a side trip although making our way north on land towards Siargao. We would only be taking the Siargao plane going home.
After countless emails (I have but to find out the wonders of Facebook’s Groups for organizing socials on-line – or Facebook, for that matter – or the a lot more intimate social networking groups like Path and Shizzlr) amongst myself and pals, resort owners, vans for rent, provincial tourist offices, and complete strangers on the internet from whom I cajoled travel information from, I ultimately figured out a fairly simple travel route. The stakes had been high simply because one poor misstep would imply us getting stuck in the middle of nowhere (meaning, tiny town relying on its sole karaoke machine for its pulsating nightlife) for an whole day. Each and every mile, each and every minute was accounted for.
And what glorious miles and minutes were invested that one great weekend.
Neglect the simple fact that we had been flying in to Davao at 9 pm, the fact that we would travel via Mindanao highways in the dead of the night, the simple fact that we didn’t know our van driver from Freddie Kruger, the truth that none of us had ever been on the route I had planned, the fact that the important boat ride from an obscure port going to Siargao was probably non-existent… you get the drift. I did guarantee my buddies we would have a memorable trip, and I humbly feel, in all honesty, that this one belongs in the record books.
