More Trike Interior Embellishments

Still I find they are exclusively things related to God, women, superstition, and fluffy stuffed toys.


Springy unidentified animal in Nueva Vizcaya, beside a Chinese charm and a snow globe.


Jesus loves you, please give me only coins during the morning. Mindoro trike.

Less frequently, there are stickers telling you to pay with only in loose change during the morning.

Long Bus Rides

Preacher lady talks on the rattling bus. Everyone is sleeping. Others look out the window.

Carinderia Hits

Pinakbet with kamote, munggo with ampalaya bitters.

I don't remember what the place was called, but there's a pretty good carinderia a few footsteps away from St. Mary's College, which should be a tricycle ride away from anywhere in Bayombong. They play rock and reggae music.

I ordered my standards-- munggo and pinakbet. The munggo had a healthy amount of ampalaya greens, a rarity in most cheap eateries. The pinakbet had kamote instead of kalabasa-- a northern variation, in my experience. Good news for me, no meat at all mixed in. And all pretty non-salty (prepared food in the province tends to be a little too salty for my tastes).

But actually, the best part about Nueva Vizcaya is the pleasant relative lack of MSG in the food, more actual flavor without that special homogeneous ginisa mix taste.

And 15 pesos per ulam!

Nueva Vizcaya Sunrise

A miscommunication on a meeting had me at the Farmer's Training Center at 5 AM. It was padlocked and lifeless.

It was all fortunate. I turned around to see beautiful blues and pinks battle it out. An orange seeped in and when daylight prevailed, I trudged down the stairs to take a tricycle back into the center.