Kat's Notebook

Being a California resident particularly residing in the Bay Area, I’m 30 minutes drive away from San Francisco City. I love San Francisco city. It’s so alive, colorful, and festive. When I arrive in the US the first time, I was so in love with San Francisco. We live in an area where store closes [...]

My first trip out of town since I got back here in the US was an invitation by my aunt to accompany them to Carmel. I love Carmel…and Monterey. Those places are just so picturesque and very charming. Carmel is located south of San Francisco, off Highway 101 south. This would be my third trip [...]

This comes with big regret but I’m going to kiss a Coron vacation goodbye for now. With the constant rainy weather over at Coron, it’s better to postpone the trip. I wouldn’t like to go island hopping when it’s raining/stormy. Our boat may capsize and also we wouldn’t be able to get a good shot [...]

I was so excited to go to Palawan this week.  Here was how our travel adventure went: Since our flight was on Sunday afternoon, we decided to attend church before heading to the airport. Furthermore after church it  gave me time for some last minute shopping for the trip. I successfully bought my DICAPAC that [...]

I’m going to Coron with my sister this Sunday! I’m so excited that I’m actually blogging about this like 5 days ahead of time. I’ve been wanting to go to Palawan for a very long time now. When I got back from the US, I really planned to go here. My mom’s side of the [...]

My sister and I decided to go to Quezon province to participate in the Pahiyas Festival on May 15. I’ve been seeing Pahiyas coverage on TV. The news show houses being decorated with edible decorations called “kiping” and lots of people celebrating in the fiesta. I was glad to have this opportunity to go to [...]

Last weekend I went to Sagada and literally survived the trip. Sagada is at the northern part of Luzon just beyond Baguio or Benguet. It is an ultimate adventure trip. If you’re a backpacker or trekker or an adventurous outdoorsy-type of person, you might like Sagada. So what’s in Sagada? I made a mistake that [...]

I’ll be going to Sagada from April 30 to May 3. I’m so excited!!! What’s in Sagada, you ask? Just one of the wonders of the world, mind you. It’s the Philippine’s famous Banawe Rice Terraces. We’ll be trekking, hiking, spelunking, and hopefully swimming and jumping off a waterfall! Yahooo! My kind of travel! I’ll [...]

Continuing from where I left off, I have just realized that we only covered the basic tourist attraction sites in Beijing. We weren’t able to go to Fragrant Hills, Old Summer Palace, Happy Valley, Beijing Zoo, etc. Well they were originally part of our plan but because we didn’t realize how big the sites were [...]