Day 4 - Blogabond

By noon on our last day we had finished with business and it was time to head home. We could have stayed on a bit more but I wanted to avoid the rush hour traffic on EDSA. These last few kilometers always takes a toll on me specially after a long trip and several days away from the comfort and familiarity of home. There was a slow down near the exit of NLEX because of an overturned truck but EDSA, Coastal Road and Zapote-Alabang proved light and I was relaxing on my LA-Z Boy by 4 PM.

I start to feel the aches and sores from the drive coming on as the adrenaline from the drive recedes but it is with a sense of satisfaction as I review the details of the trips. We achieved our intended objectives plus a good time was had to boot. Personally, I traveled a new road, visited a new place and saw the changes or lack thereof in the places I had been to before. All in all a very satisfying and productive trip.

Getting back to those tricycles, please heed this word of caution. It was not bad enough that they were going about 5 kph on a national road, I noticed that they would intentionally put on their brakes to further slow you down. When waiting for oncoming traffic to pass before overtaking these menaces, your tendency is to tailgate the pests. Don’t! They will time it to slow down further right when you are about ready to pass them. You will be fortunate if you have quick eyes and reflexes and these will only work with the tricycles that have working tail lights. I noted that in most stretches there are narrow outer lanes which would appear to be intended for the use of these tricycles but they insist on staying in the very center of the road. This is a very dangerous problem which I think demands the attention of the concerned authorities. These are accidents waiting to happen if they haven’t happened already. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THIS! BAN TRICYCLES FROM NATIONAL ROADS!

written by

Joey Carlotta on November 21, 2008 from Manila, Philippines

from the travel blog: Bolinao – Subic – Mariveles

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