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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Certified Rocky Road

It was a splendid day yet my heart was thumping wildly as I embarked on a motorcycle ride of my life. A team of eight individuals were on their way to the infamous 23rd km-remote-rural-barangay up in the mountains of Lanuza.

I never imagined myself on that trip as I gripped tightly the shoulders of my companion back riding on the single motorcycle with wooden wings at each side carrying 2 passengers each. Proper precautions were given to each of us so nothing hazardous will happen. One is that, when riding on this kind of transportation, the passengers who are seated on each wing need to be calm in case the motorcycle will be out of balance and he/she should never put his or leg down for support as it might be the end of one's sturdy leg.

Brrrrrrrooooom,  I could hear the engine shouting and screaming as it goes over rocks, puddles of mud, and dead trees; but more on the rocks as I scream and wanted to close my eyes every time our motorcycle tries to run over them and would cause us to bounce and bounce almost falling off our seats.  What's more, there were instances when we were actually in between cliffs!  Indeed, certified rocky road but I guess the ice cream would be so much better.

My knowledge about motorcycles was enriched as I learned that with the type of road, a certain rubber motorcycle tire is required. They were talking about 135 or 130. Searching over the net, it's more of 130 which allows more grip and balance for that kind of terrain.  The speed required should not be too slow or too fast.  There were even moments when we had to walk for a couple of times so we will not all fall off our seats.

After almost 2 hours of motorcycle ride, we reached the barangay named Pakwan (derived from the edible fern called Pako very common to the place) just as the last ray of sunlight faded over the trees.

I can not help but say all the words I know saying Thank You for the protection and safe trip we had.

On our third day, this same adventure will recur as we will still be having the same ride, but this time, it will be descending down slopes of the mountains and hopefully the weather will cooperate having Mr. Sun smiling gladly.

 Do you also have some adventures on the field like this? Tell me more about it.

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