Category: North America

  • Gardens and Green Escapes: Nature’s Beauty in 10 Cities

    Gardens and Green Escapes: Nature’s Beauty in 10 Cities

    As I pursued on exploring various countries and cities, my travels unveiled the beating heart of each metropolis. Amid bustling streets, verdant havens provide solace—a timeless narrative of culture, history, and urban-nature harmony. These are the parks and gardens found in modern and busy cities, providing refuge to the weary.…

  • Philippine interconnectivity with Palau and Guam

    Philippine interconnectivity with Palau and Guam

    There’s good news for Palau and Guam! And this is good news even for travelers heading to these places, too. There is  a recent development in terms of interconnectivity with Southeast Asia and the US that will create milestones on the services and communities of Palau and Guam. Things will…

  • Canada as Top Travel Destination in 2017

    Canada as Top Travel Destination in 2017

    Canada is emerging as a top travel destination in 2017. While travelers are looking at it as a great destination for some adventure, experience or vacation, many are even planning to work and live in Canada. But before we get to that part, let us first look at the lists…

  • Cyber Christmas Shopping with GCash

    Cyber Christmas Shopping with GCash

    Black Friday, a day after Thanksgiving, is often regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season in the US. Along with it, Cyber Monday is also another event that shoppers are anticipating. But even those from other parts of the world, including the Philippines, can now also enjoy the Black…

  • Make Wanders Happen in Northern Mariana Island

    Make Wanders Happen in Northern Mariana Island

    For quite sometime now, I have been looking towards the east, hoping I would someday explore more territories just beyond my country, the Philippines. After my New Zealand trip, my curiosity of such territories was piqued when I encountered people from the Pacific Islands. Guam, Palau, Micronesia, and their neighboring…

  • My 5 Memorable Train Travels

    My 5 Memorable Train Travels

    Getting from one city to another by plane may be the fastest way but traveling by train can be a whole lot of fun. I’m the type of traveler who loves to see the scenery, that is why I always prefer the window seat. And train travel gives me that…

  • Earth Hour 2016: Dim The Lights, Light the Future

    Earth Hour 2016: Dim The Lights, Light the Future

    I love browsing photos of famous global landmarks in various websites. They look breathtaking in the morning and they even appear amazing at night. But each year, I like seeing pictures of these tourist spots from their dazzling night scenes to having their lights switched off. That’s the scene every…

  • Beaches in the Philippines: Fly to these Destinations

    Beaches in the Philippines: Fly to these Destinations

    Wanting to go to a warmer place and enjoy the islands? Now, there’s a way for travelers from the US to fly straight to the heart of the Philippines — the Visayas region, where thousands of beaches and islands are sprawled across the central part of the country. Philippine Airlines,…

  • 20 Travel-Related Books In My Shelf

    20 Travel-Related Books In My Shelf

    It seems that my thirst for travel is not just limited to actually going out and exploring the world. It also extends to my other interests, such as my postcards collection and the books I keep in my cabinet. I’ve found that apart from travel guides and language books, I…

  • Traveling and Worshiping

    Traveling and Worshiping

    When one has a day job and has to take some time off to travel to some foreign destination, the journey is often scheduled near the weekends to make the most of it. That’s what I always do. Several times, I time my trips during the Holy Week when business…

  • Party Perks: Travel-themed Children’s Party

    Party Perks: Travel-themed Children’s Party

    I was excited to receive an invite from my high school buddy. She gave birth earlier this year and she would be having a christening for her third child, her only son, Andrei Teomar. She got me as one of the godmothers, too. But what really caught my interest was…

  • Top 10 Destinations Bucket List

    Top 10 Destinations Bucket List

    * Spain is a great country to explore. Image above by VideoVik. Though I have hit the road many times and explored places many have not gone before, I still consider myself lacking when it comes to my travel experiences. I have seen a lot, but I have also seen…

  • “One Year Lived” free e-book

    “One Year Lived” free e-book

    I get a lot of propositions in my First-time Travels e-mail every now and then. I read through them all and choose which best suits my interest and my blog’s theme. Recently, I received a message from a memoirist and traveler, Adam Shepard. He is one of those who are…

  • Travel to Learn English

    I recently read this infographic on learning English at the Kaplan International website. Infographic via the KIC Blog. The data is interesting. One of the reasons why foreigners prefer to travel to the Philippines is that majority of the Filipinos can easily converse in English. In fact, there are many…

  • Travelers and their “Firsts”

    Travelers and their “Firsts”

    It has taken me a few more days to put this together due to some late submissions and my increased work load in my day job. I couldn’t accommodate more submissions though because I have set a deadline. I hope you enjoy whatever I have compiled in this blog carnival…