last june, rhea and i booked a flight for ozamiz city and a return flight from cagayan de oro city. however – a few Fridays back, typhoon Sendong visited the PH and devastated parts of Mindanao. It specifically hit the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. This wrath of nature claimed some 700 lives and a thousand more people missing. while my adventure for travel wasn’t quelled, the typhoon after-effect definitely put a damper on my december travel plans. i initially heard that some bridge in Iligan was badly damaged that traveling to neighboring cdo could proved problematic. while i have no way to confirm this , what truly clinched the decision to cancel the trip was the thought of the many lives that succumbed to the tragedy. i just couldn’t summon myself to be excited for the trip knowing many families have lost some of their loved ones. of course, one can argue that I had nothing to do with their deaths and that tragedies shouldn’t let the living from continuing on with their lives. i should go, right? my travel thirst says I should, but my moral voice says i’ll be the most insensitive dick on earth if i go. some part of me truly wants to go despite the voice, but the other part is scared of the devastation I might see while there. given these thoughts, i fully understand why rhea decided to cancel on me as well. my initial reaction was truly of fear, so i don’t take it against her that she decided against going.
now, the travel thirst is definitely still there. i know i’ll give myself a bad beating if i decide to stay put and spend the whole vacation at home. in addition, the itch to go to tangub is getting “itchier and itchier.” it’s been three years now since I promised myself that I’d see the Festival of Lights in Tangub someday. since june, i’ve been looking forward to finally see the country’s Christmas Capital. so, to ease the thirst, i got myself a return ticket from Ozamiz yesterday. while i may have secured myself a safe ticket back home, what’s stopping me from feeling truly at ease with this trip is the idea that i need to be at tangub at night. i’ve been trying to locate a place to stay in tangub, but to no avail. the accommodations i could find are from ozamiz and oroquieta. this means, i need to go back to ozamiz at night. now, i’ve no information as to the transportation available for tangub-ozamiz and back. so YES, i’m kind of hesitant if i will truly go to tangub. i could go to tangub by day, but will i have the means to go back to ozamiz at night? i need to be in tangub at night, but have to return to ozamiz at night, too as I didn’t have any luck finding a place to stay in tangub. it is because of this uncertainty that i decided to book a return flight the next day. my only reason for booking a flight to ozamiz in the first place was to be in tangub.
i guess, i will have to wait on december 28 and see for myself if i could summon enough guts to go to tangub alone at night.
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