Albay High School Class 1961




Starting from the Albay High School campus


Last minutes instructions form the Secretariat		We were accomodated in two aircon buses


		This is Bus No. 2. Moks was our tour guide. April 15 is the birthday of Alan, so we sang happy birthday.


Padang, Legazpi City


First stop was this marker at Padang, Legazpi City where an entire baranggay was washed away to the sea or burried under the mud and stones from the slopes of Mayon by the floods brought by Typhoon Reming. One of the victims was our classmate, Aida Soler and her family.












Sto. Domingo where Kalayukai beach is






Tabaco




		We had morning snacks of empanada and juice drinks.

Tabaco


This is the church at Tiwi. You see vendors selling healing oils, whch are cheap. But you have to pay for the "oracion" secret code which will give it powers.










		This is where Andres Bonifacio ordered online his bolo used in the Cry of Balintawak photo-ops and he paid by paypal. Boy Ordiz did not know that when you touch one you have to buy it. Touch move, as in chess. My wife Bing bought one which was only half the price of that in Mannila.


Mayon Rest House











Feeling artista si Ma;am Cielo Nimo!









That was a nice meal for lunch -- inihaw na native chicken, pinangat and laing, eaten at a cool, relaxing place with friends of our youth and senior years.











Gaya buys a bonsai while Juni can not make up his mind whether to buy one or not.



Kawakawa Park in Ligao
















Only about half of the Lakbayeros climbed up the KawaKawa. Trek winner: Wency!











When you reach the top, you see this gigantic kawa, like some asteroid impacted on it.

Blanlinda (Blandina Monforte and Lina Lopo) with the kawakawa below them. Documentary evidence that they reached the top and were actually there. Photoshop of course can do this, too.		From the top, one can see the Mt. Masaraga, left of which are the towns of Ligao, Oas and Polangui.

Bonus Tracks Solar Dryers


All throughout the Lakbay Albay route, we saw palay being dried by the natural heat of the sun. The good news is that people are harvesting palay and they will have rice when the rainy season comes. The better news is that no imported foissil oil is used to dry them up, the sun being a natural drier of things, quite apart from giving you vitamin D, according to Doc Juni..





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