FEATURE • The Journey that Gave Birth to 29 Travel Bloggers

Different people, different style, armed with their nicknames with thirst for adventure and fun, they explore the lovely islands of the Philippines (and beyond). Some travel in tight budget while some embrace the concept of luxury travel. Others are born mountain climbers and divers while others just simply hang out the beach and that's it, they become happy and contented.

They seek for adventure and the most delectable food. Some sleep with strangers, some stay in expensive hotels. Others travel by land and sea while others love flying up above the clouds but they are all one at heart.

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For the month of July (2012), I am honored to host the most read and much awaited travel post every month in the Philippines' Travel Blogosphere.

I know every reader of these wonderful travel blogs is curious how their favorite travel blogs started or came into existence. For this very rare moment, they will share to you their much kept secrets, feelings, experiences and even misadventures that gave birth to your favorite travel blogs that are truly inspiring.

For this blog carnival, let me give the first spot to our travel bloggers who are going to join this edition for the first time.

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[1] Random Trippings ni Drew

Andrew Mamangun | Pasig City/Tagaytay City

"Starting this travel blog not only forced me to see places that I only read about but it has also brought me so much realizations... By a strange twist of faith, I boarded a plane ride back to my homeland for a very important mission. A mission that will require me to adapt a new and exciting, albeit temporary lifestyle." 

"I dream and dare."

It's Drew's debut for the PTB Blog Carnival!

Drew boarded back to the Philippines from freezing cold Canada to savor the fun of the country he once left.

He said that he was constantly daydreaming of the tropical beaches of the Philippines as he spent a part of his life in Canada. It was a journey going back to his homeland that made him a travel blogger and embraced a lifestyle that gave him many realizations -- realizations that allowed him to find the meaning of his existence. For Drew, it was a mission. Read Drew's official entry and be blown away on how he has written his inspiring entry passionately! Enjoy his random trippings in his travel blog!

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Official entry: When I morphed into a travel blogger: The beginning of my crazy travel life
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[2] Budget Biyahera

Mai Flores | Quezon City

"I whispered the words 'I miss you, dad. Wish you were here!' right when we set foot on this foreign country. But I was grateful for Kuya's sweet gesture. He knows my father would have done the same for me."

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

For Budget Biyahera, her PTB Blog Carnival Debut deserves a MMK episode, uh. My heart was pierced with million needles when I read her heart-tearing entry. After reading her entry, I immediately sent her a PM to give a virtual *hug*. Her passion to travel was molded by two men in her life, her father and her kuya. But when she was 11 years old, her dad passed away.

It was her Kuya who nurtured her like a delicate flower. Her Kuya served as her dad, treated Budget Biyahera for her first out-of-the-country trip, a thing that she believes her father would have done the same if only he was alive. With her kuya, they conceptualized Budget Biyahera, a blog where she documented her travels -- a blog born because of these two men in her life. Read Budget Biyahera's Official Entry!

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Official Entry: It all started with my father's wandering feet

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[3] Franc Ramon | My Thoughts, My Travels, My Runs
Franc Ramon | Makati City

Travel and blogging came to me at different times.  I was a writer. I was a blogger. I was a traveler. These were different versions of me and yet there came a time when the traveler in me met the blogger in me and I became a travel blogger.

"There's Always a Better Way."

It's Franc Ramon's first entry for the PTB Blog Carnival! For Franc, he knows himself he is a writer, a blogger, and a traveler but these  elements were three different things before his travel blog was born.

He said he is workaholic being an auditor working on a top audit firm in the Philippines. But yeah, his work has made him to love traveling, how? Well saan ka pa! He was sent to Paris and Amsterdam due to his work and for that opportunity, how come you can not love traveling? Ikaw na Franc! Of course, Franc also traveled within the country and his journey to Marinduque fused the three different elements of writing, traveling and blogging into one - thus, he considered himself a travel blogger. How Marinduque made him a travel blogger? Read Franc's official entry.

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Official Entry: When Traveler Met Blogger

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[4] Boy Palaboy: A Journal of Journeys

Rey Casia Idpalina | Davao City

"It does not limit on the first journey itself but a series of amazing and unforgettable trips I had that gave birth to Boy Palaboy travel blog."

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

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