Overwhelmed by wonderful comments on our latest FB/IG post. But this one made me tear up. 🥹 It brought me back to my early years as a personal blogger. I wasn’t a travel blogger then, but I would comment on others’ travel-related posts a lot, wondering whether I’d be able to go to those places…

NAIROBI, Kenya, 2024. Sheldrick Elephant Nursery takes care of 20+ baby elephants orphaned in the wild. Each baby has their own story of survival. The most compelling are those of orphaned African elephants that were adopted by bull elephants. The bulls would still protect the baby elephant as much as they could. But sadly, protection…

Wearing 3 continents on my wrist now. 🇰🇪 a beaded band created by Maasai women in Kenya 🇬🇷 a bracelet from Tinos Island, gifted by a friend who hosted us in Greece 🇹🇭 a sai sin, blessed by a Buddhist monk in Thailand Too bad I didn’t purchase any bracelet in North America and Australia.…

NAGANO, Japan, 2023. “It was the early morning of December 10 when bloggers Yosh and Vins started their hike through the woods of Nagano Prefecture. The goal was simple: to see Japan’s famous snow monkeys bathing butt-naked in the onsen. The plan, straightforward: hike for an hour, take pictures, and leave. Little did they know,…

“Your aunt’s a very lucky woman, Angelica, because she has two lives,” I told Vins at one point while we were exploring Disney Sea. I then went on to narrate the ENTIRE SCRIPT of the trailer for “THE HOURS.” Not sure what was more confusing: the fact that I memorized the script by heart or…

A Boracay-based follower invited us to her cafe for a drink and introduced us to some of her friends in the island. And when they noticed we were just a few subscribers short, they subscribed and we finally made it past 100K! 💙 Super pak na pahabol na birthday gift ng universe!

Got this in the mail a few months ago. It’s a Tateyama sake cup sent to us by a partner agency in Japan. Cute! Ngayon ko lang naalala ulit ‘to kasi may balita na magluluwag na ulit ang Japan, and gaaaah I can’t wait to return!

🌈 I knew they had always known, but the other night I nervously, officially came out to my family. My mom said it wasn’t a big deal because “Buhay mo naman ‘yan. Basta masaya ka at walang natatapakang tao.”