Many people have asked me how much this trip costs, and to be honest – I’m fine being transparent about it! So I’ll try to recap for each destination how much things cost and how much I spent. It’s likely going to be a lot lower than you’re thinking! Overall, for five days and four nights in Siargao, I spent $292.89 USD. How did that work out? (Note that these do not add perfectly to the $292.89 above… they’re a bit off due to currency conversion and rounding. But like $2… so whatever.) Airfare: $88.10 It cost me about $90 to fly round-trip to Siargao from Cebu. (I’m not including…
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Siargao Sunrises, Sunsets and In-Betweens
I feel like this place can’t be real – but yet it is. The colors here are incredible, the beaches are practically empty, the water is perfectly warm, and the food is pretty good. I just don’t know how it gets better than this! I definitely started this trip off on the right foot. And before you get tired of all the sunrise and sunset pictures – just know I culled these down by a large number. There are LOTS more pictures just as incredible. Though to note – some of these are grainy just because I made them smaller for uploading (seriously the Internet here is like living in…
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Those Languid Island Days
Time here moves a bit like cold syrup and it’s the most fantastic thing ever. And the perfect start to my sabbatical! I’m currently on the island of Siargao in the Philippines, and it’s a tiny little thing that has two flights in a day! It took me four flights and three and a half days to get here, and it was worth every second. I went from Tampa to Toronto, spent the night in Toronto, Toronto to Hong Kong (fifteen hours on a plane), Hong Kong to Cebu, Philippines, spent the night in Cebu, then Cebu to Siargao. Then a 45 minute minibus ride to get to the main…
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The Internet Sucks Here
So you’ll likely get a real post Sunday. In the meantime, here are two pictures of where I’m at:
