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How to Get to Siargao from Cagayan de Oro via Bus and Boat Rides

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Six more days to go and itā€™s already Christmas! Oh my! How time really flies when youā€™re having fun! Have you gotten your Christmas plans down pat? As for us, weā€™ll be checking in at a nearby affordable hotel resort on Dec. 22-23 with our farm helpers and their kidsĀ as our Christmas treat to them since theyā€™ve all been cooped up at the farm since they started working for us a few months back. It will be a pre-Christmas celebration and we’ll incorporate our planning session as well. Then come Dec. 24, weā€™ll transfer at a more luxurious hotel in the city, just our little family, which we havenā€™t done yet here in Cagayan de Oro City. Itā€™ll be a very relaxed kind of Christmas compared last year when we celebrated it at the farm with all our previous farm helpers and neighbors. Those previous farm helpers of ours left us early this year at such a bad time and in such bad taste that I think I got traumatized by it (which is why until now our mushroom growing house is still not up to its capacity) so I’m choosing not to celebrate there because it’ll just bring bad memories.

Anyway, if it hadnā€™t been Tuzā€™s 3rd birthday last November, December would have been the perfect time to head to Siargao since Iā€™ve never experienced Christmas in that beautiful island yet. But because itā€™s hard to leave our farm during the holiday season, we decided to visit Siargao last month and for this post, Iā€™ll share with you how to get there all the way from Cagayan de Oro.

Are you currently living in Mindanao? Or somewhere inĀ Misamis Oriental particularly Cagayan de Oro? Do you wish to go to Siargao any time soon and would like to find out how to get to Siargao from Cagayan de Oro via buses and boats? Well, thatā€™s exactly what this post is about so read on… Continue reading →

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Halloween 2018

Halloween 2018 – Transformative Lessons and Realizations

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Let me begin by saying that Halloween is my most favorite time of the year. Christmas comes second and Summer comes third.

You can check out my previous Halloween posts here:

https://momtraneur.com/2016/10/21/nuvali-night-sky-cinema-2016-pre-halloween-prep/
https://momtraneur.com/2016/10/24/nuvali-night-sky-cinema-2016-family-event/
https://momtraneur.com/2016/10/25/top-8-things-to-do-in-nuvali-2016/
https://momtraneur.com/2017/10/31/halloween-2017-how-to-let-go-of-attachments/
http://sexynomad.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween

And this year, I honestly thought that I wonā€™t be able to celebrate it because of the following reasons:

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Dakak Day Tour

Dakak Beach Resort Day Tour Review – How to Get There and How Much

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Have you been to Dakak?

Iā€™ve heard of Dakak since I was young. My mom would mention it from time to time saying that itā€™s one of the best resorts in the southern part of the Philippines owned by the former Zamboanga del Norte representative and businessman Romeo JalosjosĀ . My mom was born in Surigao and our ancestors have lands all over Mindanao so Dakak was pretty much popular in our family back then.

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Royal Farm Resort

Royal Farm Resort Review – Mixing Business with Pleasure in Dipolog City

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The last time we traveled was back in July and August when we did a road trip of Bukidnon, Davao, Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro City. I’ve been wanting to travel again to celebrate our 49th monthsaryĀ  last September 15, to celebrate our first year of stay in Mindanao as well as our first year of farm life, and just to relax and get away from the hustle and bustle of our farm life (yes, farming, just like any kind of work, can be daunting, more so than office work because there’s always physical effort involved). So I’ve been ranting to Mahal how stressed I’ve been about everything, how I’ve been having a hard time adjusting to our farm life sometimes and I just want to relax and have a few moments to enjoy myself.

Then an opportunity presented itself after we hired our new farm helper. His name is Joshua. He mentioned that he has contacts in Dipolog who buy wholesale chili peppers. We can try to set up a meeting with them and see if we can supply them with chili. He has also been homesick after leaving his family behind so we decided to get his wife, his newborn baby, his two toddlers and younger nephew so they can all live with us at the farm, we can have more help and Joshua would be more inspired to work with us. And since we were already there, why not make the most of it?Ā  Continue reading →

Agutayan Island

AGUTAYAN ISLAND: MISAMIS ORIENTAL BUDGET WEEKEND GETAWAY

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Agutayan Island is one of those places I’ve always wanted to explore here in Misamis Oriental. They say it is pretty much like Camiguin’s white island, only smaller, and nearer if you’re coming from Cagayan de Oro City. So after being so cold at the farm (our farm is on top of a mountain where fog reigns in the afternoon and the cold air is much much colder than our air conditioner at home — I wear 3 layers of clothes when I’m there), it is expected that I will be missing the beach soon and craving for the heat of the scorching sun. And the perfect place to get that? Agutayan Island!

But before that, let me tell you that Iā€™m now on the 29th day of my very own self-imposedĀ 30-day blog post challengeĀ which also propelled me to restart doing other things I love and one of them is blogging about myĀ travels! Itā€™s actually the primary reason why I started blogging in 2000 in Geocities so I could document all of the travels I was doing. Then eventually, most of my travel posts went to my Sexy Nomad blog. And now, little by little, here inĀ Momtraneur.

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Back-to-School Limketkai Bazaar

Back-to-School-Bazaar in Limketkai Cagayan de Oro: Tuscany Highlands Organic Farm Mushroom Chili Paste is Joining!

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Because it’sĀ  the end of May, that only means one thing for most parents, especially moms — it’s going to be back to school again for your kids pretty soon (Tuz is still 2 years old, so I still have 2-3 years to prepare for that, thank God!)Ā If you’re already shopping for various stuff for your kids, or for yourself, do drop by LimketKai Event Center at the 2nd floor. You might just see products that fit your lifestyle and budget and that includes having the chance to purchase our farm-produced MUSHROOM CHILI PASTE!

Oh by the way, Iā€™m now on the 22nd day of my very own self-imposedĀ 30-day blog post challengeĀ which also propelled me to restart doing other things I love and one of them is selling. (It’s not so obvious noh? Hihi!) You can check my previous mini entrepreneurial ventures hereĀ and hereĀ and you will know from my posts that whenever possible, I really find the time to offer quality products to my network that give value to them whether they be clothes, homemade soaps, etc. Then last year, we started setting up our farm, Tuscany Highlands Organic FarmĀ and the first product we came up with is our very own Mushroom Chili Paste.

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Sagpulon Falls

Sagpulon Falls: Explore Misamis Oriental on a Budget

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Sagpulon Falls is love when you get to explore it here in Misamis Oriental!!! But before that, let me tell you that Iā€™m now on the 20th day of my very own self-imposedĀ 30-day blog post challengeĀ which also propelled me to restart doing other things I love and one of them is blogging about my travels! It’s actually the primary reason why I started blogging in 2000 in Geocities so I could document all of the travels I was doing. Then eventually, most of my travel posts went to my Sexy Nomad blog. And now, hopefully, here in Momtraneur.

You see, I travel locally most of the time that I couldn’t catch up with writing them all down as blog posts. Travel writing just takes so much time which is something I don’t really have given everything I’m doing! Perhaps, now that I’m getting into the habit of blogging every day about all kinds of stuff I’m interested in, I will eventually be able to post all of my travels in one way or another, including old ones. This is after all, first and foremost, my online diary. Teehee.

Okay, now, off to Sagpulon Falls…

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Nadela Dental Care

Tooth Extraction: What to Expect Before and After (Part 2)

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Iā€™m now on the 15th day of my very own self-imposedĀ 30-day blog post challengeĀ which also propelled me to restart doing other things I love and one of them is blogging about anything and everything about my life. This is why I started telling you about my dental visit in my previous post and this is the continuation of it.

So now that I’m done with my antibiotics, and I also have the clearance to go ahead with the tooth extraction, what’s next?

I confirmed my appointment with Dr. Aileen Nadela Dagcuta of Nadela Dental Care here in Cagayan de Oro. ItĀ was supposed to be last Sunday, right after we came back from the farm. But it was her day-off so I got rescheduled for Monday in their main office in Capistrano-Macahambus St. I got there before 10:00 AM all anxious and nervous, hoping and praying that the extraction won’t be painful and that everything would be fine…

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Tooth Extraction

Tooth Extraction: What to Expect Before and After (Part 1)

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Iā€™m now on the 14th day of my very own self-imposedĀ 30-day blog post challengeĀ which also propelled me to restart doing other things I love as I’ve mentioned in my previous posts. And one thing I love to do is sleeping and that’s what I’ve been doing lately to recover from a recent tooth extraction I had. If you’re thinking of having your tooth extracted sometime soon and you’re more or less my age (I’m 40), then this post might enlighten you.

I had this problem with my tooth since 2014 and itā€™s just this week that I finally had it extracted. This is also why Iā€™ve been quiet online.. the meds I’ve been taking made me so lethargic and sleepy!

Let me give you a little background first as to why the problem with my tooth lasted this long (4 years!)
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How to Travel with a Toddler? (A 2017 Travel Recap)

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OMG! OMG! OMG! This blog post has been on draft mode since January! And because I’ve been sooooo busy like never before, it’s only now that I am trying to finish this so I can finally publish it!

This is a two-part blog post, a bit long yes, but I think I owe it to you (and myself) since I haven’t really posted in aĀ  while.

The first part is about tips on how to travel with a toddler. The second part is a photo summary of all our travels in 2017. I want to have a look back at the past year first so I can appreciate more how wonderful 2018 is turning out to be. We’re only in the 3rd month of this year but so many things have already happened and I’m just so grateful for everything!

Just in case you’re new on my blog and you’re wondering how we can do so much traveling, it’s because we don’t work in the corporate world. We’re setting up our farm in Mindanao and IĀ  work online which means we can pretty much travel when we want to as long as everything in our life is in place – our workers at the farm, my online work schedule and our finances.

Anyway, I first drafted this post while we were doing our annual trip to Oslob, Cebu 3rd week of January and I was hoping to not leave without recapping all those wonderful travels we did last year! But then life happened — I hit the ground running at the start of the year with work, Tuz was very needy, we were traveling a lot, I had to rest and sleep… the usual, lol!Ā  — so I’m only able to write about it now. I know I am super behind in sharing here with you my travel posts. What I usually end up writing here are things about my life as a mother and provider in general and all those self-help stuff I’ve learned (I’m a Psychology graduate so I really do like dissecting my thoughts most of the time by writing them down here). As one of my resolutions for 2018, I want to write more travel posts since we’re traveling most of the time and I’m starting it with this one — our 2017 travel recap and how to travel with a toddler (coz Tuz is two years old now…Yep, time really flies fast, I know!) Hopefully, it won’t take me another 2 months or so to write the next one!

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