While stuck in enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the Philippines, I finally did the major thing I said I’d do...
USA
Whenever I travel to the United States with my family, one agenda tops our list: shopping. Be it an afternoon...
As much as I’ve evolved as a traveler—like packing a lighter luggage and avoiding tourist scams—I’m unabashedly the stereotypical Filipino...
There are travel albums in my hard drive that I enjoy revisiting—some for the memorable stories behind them, and others...
Wearing a navy blue cotton dress, a denim vest, and a pair of white sandals, I was definitely not ready...
“Shake my hand! I’m not a drug dealer!” a tall, well-built man said to my friend Myron as we strolled...
A teenaged boy dressed in basketball shorts and a t-shirt was hanging out at the basketball court of Spring Lake...
“Doesn’t it remind you of Merlotte’s Bar?” asked Mama Cherry, my second mother from Michigan during my visit in March....
Poor Cookie Monster. He’s wants to get his paws at those sweet and savory cookies, but he’s always stuck somewhere—behind...
One of Brooklyn’s several flea markets, Fort Greene runs every Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., from spring to fall...
I had just moved out of my Brooklyn apartment and into Crowne Plaza near Times Square. “Perfect location,” I told...
It looks like empanada. It smells like empanada. It sure tastes like the meaty beef and chicken empanadas I would...