Who Else Wants To Travel To The Next Bali?

A friend of mine, who is based in Shanghai, wanted to visit me in the Philippines on New Year’s Day. She mentions this three weeks prior when most hotels during the peak season have been booked. It is not customary for locals to forego the usual media noche festivity, but I am the most unusual local, excited by rare visits of friends and the prospect of travel.

I have had insatiable wanderlust since my first adventure travel to Sagada, Mountain Province 18 years ago. It was a course requirement for Tourism, my major in college. Since then, I have been…