If you google the word 'Luzon' it is likely that you find out that it is the northern island group of the Philippines (it is also where the nation's capital city, Manila, is located). All my life I have been confined to its boundaries. I have traveled Luzon well - going as far north as Vigan and as deep south as Legazpi, Albay (where perfect-coned Mayon is). I spent college in the local summer capital, Baguio. I know very well how the bus rides go that they have ingrained a certain form of solace for me. I faintly recall Adams' metaphors on travel in 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'. It describes travel as a form of, in my own words, existence stasis. It is a time where in an individual is condemned to a
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