observations regarding philippine transport system: it wasn't as scary as i thought it was... or maybe it's just because i had a companion when i made the trip.
when i was in the uk at 23, it never occurred to me to get scared about making a 12-hr bus ride from cambridge-london-edinburgh. but at that time, i thought that when i made this trip back home, i won't be able to because i'd surely get lost. but years later, after making that pagudpud trip, i've changed my mind. not totally, but i'm glad it changed...
when i was in the uk at 23, it never occurred to me to get scared about making a 12-hr bus ride from cambridge-london-edinburgh. but at that time, i thought that when i made this trip back home, i won't be able to because i'd surely get lost. but years later, after making that pagudpud trip, i've changed my mind. not totally, but i'm glad it changed...
you see, in the uk, bus stops are right where they say it will be. in pinas, it's wherever a person needs to stop or hop on to! there's no such thing as a proper place for taking the bus. but what changed my mind was the relative ease on how we were able to hop on- hop off from one place to the other. the tricycle drivers at pagudpud are trustworthy (i hope!) and when asked, bus conductors/barkers answer your questions (most of them anyway). we hopped on a bus to pagudpud at their sampaloc station, then after arriving at pagudpud, we took a tricycle. it was also the same tricycle that took us to the bus station going to laoag the next day. after that laoag stop, we hopped on a bus again to go vigan.
additional story and grammar correction to follow...
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