Remember your childhood backyard? You knew where every tree was – the guava in the corner, the macopa near the poso, three kaimito dominating the center. The dwarf lived under the culvert, and the sweetest aratilis grew over the neighbor’s wall.
Carlo and I learned to fly over Central Luzon. In the lazy summer [...]
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The Damned Flood
Posted in Adventure, tagged Central Luzon, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Pangasinan on October 17, 2009, Saturday | 6 Comments »
Houston, We Have Reached Orbit
Posted in Flight, tagged Central Luzon, Cessna 152, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan on May 31, 2008, Saturday | Leave a Comment »
Easter. Hot, blistering day. The kind of scorching Luzon summer day where the air shimmers incandescently over parched brown fields. It’s so hot that the shade in the tree line feels like airconditioning.
Baguio, 5,000 feet up in the Cordilleras, is an hour away by Cessna 152. Too hot to plan or pack for that. Still, staying indoors in frigid airconditioning misses the entire [...]
The Great Raid
Posted in Adventure, tagged Central Luzon, Nueva Ecija, World War II on June 13, 2007, Wednesday | 18 Comments »
In January 1945 a company of 120 American Rangers and Alamo Scouts sneaked across the Central Luzon plain and slipped behind enemy lines for 48 hours.
They attacked the Cabanatuan prison camp and liberated 511 American prisoners of war. The prisoners were survivors of the Bataan and Corregidor siege in 1942, and had been beaten and starved for 3 years.
Only [...]
Aerial Voyeurism
Posted in Adventure, tagged Central Luzon, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan on June 6, 2007, Wednesday | 8 Comments »
Our last Adventure article introduced a visual treat — touring Central Luzon in a flying soda can. We continue our aerial Backyard Tour. An emergency airstrip, and a mysterious lake.
East of Lingayen Gulf are the Cordilleras, and the Cordillera Autonomous Region. Baguio, Sagada, and Banaue all lie in that direction, as does the highest peak in Luzon, Mt. Pulog.
The Bued [...]
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