After a long time planning, 111 emails, a few months of anxious anticipation, a number of hours in transit (or sitting in a fucking waiting lounge playing Big-2), 223 games of Big-2, a fuckload of beautiful women, a truckload of alcohol and 2 weeks of absolute gold times with good mates, the Philippines Trip is finally complete. With initial plans for an experience similar to that of the Vietnam Trip of 04, that is, the discovery of self, taste of a foreign culture and general good times with mates, the outcome in terms of these goals can be viewed as a brilliant success. To sum up the Trip in one word (with suitable adjective): "fucking sweet".
The initial members of the "Philo-ship of the Ring" ((C) Ev Mh0 2006), fox, dogboy, spu, sao, demon, ev mh0, butters, inch and Gen Augusto Pinochet (our scribe, RIP Scrumbunctios McGeogh. See diary for more info.) were to be joined by a rowdy group of mismatched travellers and freak shows over the course of the trip whom will be introduced in due time. These intrepid travellers, journeymen for want of a better word, traversed across the Philippines from Manila to Cebu and Bohol and onto Boracay, using only their own muscles and whatever cheap transport they could muster. From 23 February 2006 to 9 March 2006 we were accosted with phrases such as: "Guapo!" (meaning: handsome), "ATV, Jetski, snorkelling, scuba diving, Island hopping", "Malaki Butu!" (meaning: large penis), "Rainier!" (sao looked like some famous Filo dude called Rainier) and many others.
The following few descriptive pages is a subset of the fun had on the Trip, for not my humble words nor the writings in the Diary could do justice to the actual experience. These events are also a toned down version of what actually happened (suitable for public disclosure) - if you want all the juicy bits you'll have to see the Diary or speak to myself or one of the other travellers. If any of the Philo-ship have problems with what I've written then email me and I can edit it and we can pretend it was never put up for the WWW to see.
