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A wondrous Happy New Year to all!

One of the new year’s resolutions that I’ve been wanting to make is to be able to post more regularly to this blog. To say that this is difficult is by itself an understatement — my work schedule only allows me a few blocks of genuinely free time, which are then used up for things like family and genuine sleep, not to mention I-NAV Travel.

So scratch that resolution, it doesn’t seem attainable and realistic — at the moment.

The nice thing though was that starting last year the holiday economics law came in to effect, providing a wide range of long weekends within the year. Not only is it good for our business, but it allowed us to travel to a lot of places without me having to give up a lot of my vacation leaves.

It’s important, because starting last year we’ve been traveling like crazy; it’s the first time where I went to four different beaches within a year when before there are years that I wouldn’t even go out of town. It’s also been the first time that I hopped on a plane to two different destinations within the same year.

To sum up our travels, last year we’ve been to well known destinations like Subic, Boracay, and Palawan, and the lesser known beach in Bani, Pangasinan — a relatively new find which promises to be an excellent place for snorkeling and diving enthusiasts.

I’m excluding Laoac, Manaoag, Dagupan City and the beaches of San Fabian (all in Pangasinan) from this list — we go there practically all the time already.

This year, we’re already slated to go to Cebu in February and Bohol in March, and perhaps Davao later in the year. We’re going to look into other destinations as well.

You might be wondering what all the fuss about going around the Philippines is — well, there are several reasons. Being in the travel industry and not knowing what your clients and suppliers are talking about have proven as a handicap, so we’re taking a “see it from the horse’s mouth” approach and take a look at the different destinations ourselves. Secondly, we’re planning to have another baby by 2009 — so any and all the travel that we need or want to do will be best taken by 2008.

So to hell with the new year’s resolution — I will blog about the places we’ve been to soon (ironically, the Palawan Experience blog of Legend Hotel beat me to my own Palawan post), but I do promise that whatever comes out of this blog will continue to be worth your while — if not worth fighting over at Manolo’s blog.

Hope to see you around.