From my smartphone

(written earlier, just copied and assembled now, December 7, 2016)

I want to write, but I only brought my smart phone and I don’t have internet access right now. It is also a very small phone and I thought it is not easy to write on a smartphone. Actually I avoided smartphones for a long time as I am a computer guy, preferring a large monitor and a keyboard and a mouse. But yes, keeping my contacts in sync made me realize smartphones have their advantages and after getting one as a present and buying and using a tablet after my phone stopped working I learned the benefits of smartphones, so after my earlier smartphone and tablet were both broken, I bought a smartphone as soon as I had some budget for that. The smallest I could find, as I want to bring it in my pocket like a (previous?) ordinary cellphone.

So that is the device I am using now to write this blog post.

And I did not want to write about smartphones, no, I wanted to write about my experiences and insights I got so far from this trip. As it was really amazing what I learned the first day already, the day I just left Malasag, without a real plan, without proper planning

But yes, I achieved my goal, as my goal was to get out of Malasag, out of Mindanao, cross over to Leyte, and make a proper planning there. And the first I did, as I took the bus to Butuan and from Butuan the bus direction Ormoc, as that bus takes the ferry to Leyte, leaving Mindanao. So late at night, early morning Thursday November 17, 2016 I found myself traveling on the ferry from Lipata to Liloan, with a ticket to Maasin, my supposed first stop.

And there were different reasons I chose Maasin, not on the last place to visit someone I met through internet. But he had not responded enthusiastically when I told him I was passing by his place and could visit him if he would like that also.

And just before I left I had left some messages and also on the way I sent some messages, but no reply, or at least no reply I could do something with. However, as far as I remember at the bus terminal in Butuan someone mentioned Maasin, the place that was in my mind where he lived, so I booked a ticket to Maasin, not to Lipata, the ferry port, and not to Ormoc, the destination of the bus.

And I am thinking where to go from here, as e.g. I already had a very nice experience at the bus terminal on Butuan, waiting for the bus to Ormoc, which took two hours or so. But I can write about that later, linking from here. As my main insight came when traveling from Liloan to Maasin, as I realized I had no real goals and no real plans for this trip. Yes, I started from wanting to go to Bali to realizing that could end up pretty expensive and considering Bangkok, finding that tickets were also more expensive than I expected to considering Kota Kinabalu until realizing I had never been to North Luzon.

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