Wandering around Calatrava didn’t take that long we are still up for adventure so we decided to stop in town of San Andres to look around; I have been in this town long time ago during a summer camp of Baptist Youths and San Andres is one of the town you have to pass by going to San Agustin.

We went around the town and took some rest in their bay area below the eagle statue, and then headed to their town hall. Since it was weekend nobody is around, we are all starving. Instead of looking for a restaurant to eat we have decided to go home quickly and cooked. Eating out might be a good idea but kind of expensive and we can’t eat all we wanted on the same price if we bought something in the market to cook.

The day is perfect for travelling, the sky is blue and the sun is not showing so my mother asked us again if we want to do road trip. It seems I influenced her for being a traveller huh?

We decided to visit Calatrava, a fifth class municipality in Romblon, we already passed this town when we went to San Agustin. We first stopped at their Municipal Fishport, went inside and took some pictures. We can clearly see the shoe island inside the port which is quite nice, I have been hearing about this island from my classmate’s long time ago, how they swim and have fun. The port is quite different from the port I have remembered when I am still in secondary high school where we had a field trip in this town and had a lunch in Lapus-Lapus Beach. If you will ask me when that was, well it was 14 years ago, over a decade. Hehe

We really didn’t take long, we headed to the nearby sea wall where there’s a marble statue of fisherman’s family and their town name in marble stone as well and then headed up to their town hall. As it was Saturday, non-school and office day, town was half empty. I was glad when I found the concrete boat I have been looking for, it was different from I remember over a decade ago maybe because it was painted now and the park around it changed a lot. It was one of the highlight of our field trip those days because of the love team that had been developed and non-stop teasing for our gay classmate involved.

Calatrava is a quite a beautiful and clean town despite of being a small one and I won’t mind coming back again, hopefully next time I could visit their water falls and beaches, since it was only a short visit and the sun is starting to come out we headed to another town nearby.

Visiting Ferrol didn’t take long as we expected, we are still looking for adventure. It is still early to go home so we decided to continue our road trip to Sta. Fe, a 5^th class municipality in Romblon, my mother and sister has been there many times when our father is working at one of its islets. They will tell me endless stories how beautiful was it, how they rode a banca or pump boat to cross the water and etc.

Listening to their stories made me excited, so despite the fact that some of the road is rough I didn’t agree with them going back to Odiongan when the road already felt endless. My reason is we are already there and why not continue further, it turns out they have never been to downtown Sta. Fe just a part of it. Some of the roads are not just rough; it is also an endless curve going up and down in short mountainous.

We only met few bikes along the way including a foreigner who is in between of smiling and not, I was startled why, it turns out the two people in front of me didn’t bother to smile or nod because the sun is toward us, the loose soil and the truck that is just behind him, well I don’t know if I smile either since my attention was focus in snapping photos along the way. Sorry, maybe next time!

Anyway my companions don’t want to continue again after we passed the intersection going to Mati not only because of the rough road but because we didn’t see people or bike along the away, it was a very silent trip all we can hear is our bike and birds. It is sort of secluded area if you will asked me, but I am already decided to continue and follow where the road will take us, after some time we saw two kids walking home from school so we stopped and asked how far is it to town of Sta. Fe, the kids told us it is still far like going back to Brgy. Manhac of Looc, my mother was so decided to return home so my sister turn around the bike and went back where we came from, I felt very disappointed. I told them that distance for kids are not the same as the distance for an adult, along the way going back to Brgy. Manhac we met a local in a motorbike and we asked how far it is to downtown Sta. Fe, we are told it is not that far, it is already downtown after we descended in the mountains so we turn around and decided to continue our trip.

It was the right decision; the view at the foot of the mountain wowed me. It was very scenic, the sea is marvellous. We passed by their port where a boat just arrived, it probably came from Boracay. We drive around the small town and stopped by at their park and town hall. We didn’t take long because my companions are on a hurry, it is like we came and then go.

We stopped by in Looc town before heading home; we went to their public market to look for smoked fish which is cheaper compare to those you can buy in Odiongan market.

With nothing else to do after the New Year, we are ready again for the new adventure so we headed up to Ferrol , a 6^th class municipality in Romblon to look around and have a road trip. Ferrol is not that far as we expected it is less than 30 minutes from Odiongan, we stop by their town hall and snap some pictures and bought some candies at the nearby store.

Then we follow where the road will take us, we had a short stopover in a bridge where I found a splendid view, I would like to stay a little longer but our mother is kind of worrying since nobody is around and we are all females. If I remember there is hearsay of a man in Ferrol running after the motorist with a bolo knife in his hand (type of cutting tools), not sure though if it is true. Hehe

Along the way we found a foreigner playing basketball with the kids, a bird in the centre of the road which I went down to catch it and instead of flying the bird just keep jumping but still I only end up just taking photos of it. My sister and mother laughed at me because I can’t catch it as I am bit scared of being bitten by its beak and I have also thought what I am going to do with it if I catches it?

With nothing else to do we decided to head up to Looc but when we reached a point with two roads, we don’t know where to go so we asked a local for the right road to Looc. When we ended up in town of Looc we want to travel some more, guess where the road took us?

Just the day after Christmas we are on the road again for another road trip, since the day was perfect to travel around, it is a bit cloudy and not too sunny. We headed up to Looc and decided to continue to the next town, Alcantara, a 5th class municipality of Romblon and home to only airport of the province.

Alcantara is being promoted as hiking destination for backpackers because of its mountains covered in lush tropical rainforest. The town centre was not that far from Looc town, we stopover to snap some photos and then we travel some more until we reached the intersection going to the airport. We turn right and passed by the closed airport (no plane) where there are some people standing outside which looks like airport employees.

We ended up in sea side and part of the airport runway; we decided to stop so we could take photos. The waves are a bit strong; their shoreline is made of stones or pebbles instead of the normal sea sand, I played with the waves and ended up with a broken slippers. lol

We didn’t take long because it is kind of windy and chilly; we travel a little more and decided to return back to the downtown because we don’t know where will be the road is going to take us. We return to the downtown and turn left to an intersection going to the sea, we stop for more photos and found their old port and public market, after a few minutes we travel back home using the other road that well end us to Brgy. Anahao of Odiongan.

On New Year’s eve we decided just to have a family barbecue “party” with videoke, so my mother and sister set up a tv and speaker in our rooftop. We didn’t prepare a lot of food, our mother doesn’t even approve us cooking “pancit” but I insisted and of course a cake will never be out of the table (mother’s favourite if you asked me). We had red wine and non-alcoholic drink May; I am not drinker as well since we are not allowed to do so (or else my parents will let me sleep with our dog outside), but my husband thought me to drink a glass of beer or wine after eating a nice meal so I learned slowly, unlike before I am drowsy by just smelling a liquor. Lol

Well, red wine was not a hard drink anyway so I had 3 glass of it, 2 of non-alcoholic drink May and a single tiny shot of Emperador which is a hard drink of course, actually my father doesn’t allowed me to drink it but what else he can do when I took a shot instantly without him knowing until I put down the shot glass (lol). I felt dizzy afterwards and my throat felt dry then suddenly my shame was gone, because before that tiny shot, I have been only sitting listening to them singing while munching barbecue in stick but after that I took the microphone and sang without a tune, which I never do when I am on my right mind since my voice is like a voice of a frog on rainy days. Haha

New Year celebration was not that bad just don’t mention it rains a lot and we look like a family in a camp site after a big flood; we celebrated it with our pastor’s family and an aunt in our roof top we just put cover tent to avoid getting wet from the rain.