didipusrex

Karlo Samson

37 / Male

Marikina, Philippines

About didipusrex

Full Member | Member since 10th Nov 05

Citizenship: Philippines
Website: http://didipusrex.multiply.com
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Writer
About didipusrex:

Karlo N.B. Samson escaped Ermita four years ago and is now living in the peachy pink city of Marikina, where litter is non-existent and leatherware abounds. He writes for various magazines, blogs like a man possessed and likes cats.

Hobbies:

Photography, Urban Exploration, Electronic Music, Cats, Comics

Favourite places:

mountains, beaches and everything in between

Activity : photos (66) forum (0) guide (0) blog (9) diary (0) trips (8)

Latest Blog Entry

A Day at the Air Show

Posted by didipusrex | 18th February 2008

Heavy traffic is the last thing you want to be trapped in when you’re in a hurry, and here I was inching my way toward the Omni Airfield behind a pickup truck blasting a Journey tune over its stereo. Time again for the Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, the 12th since 1994 when then-tourism secretary Mina Gabor put up the first one. It was a bit past five and dawn was breaking to the east, a fine Saturday morning and the third day of the event. Traffic was already hell.

Perhaps an argument with my wife over the ungodly hour we were setting off was not the most auspicious way to begin a day trip to Pampanga. We left the apartment at three in the morning, traveling with a grand sum of two hours of shuteye between us. We have to get to Clark before first light, I insisted, or else we miss the chance of seeing the balloons inflate. You’ve hardly slept, she pointed out. You’ll be running around all day and

Continued | The Itinerant Errant