Sta Maria Loop

I was not really planning to have a ride at this day June 14, actually there are times when my motivation to ride fluctuates for some reason, maybe the culprit here was the failed bike touring that I have planned this past holy week because after that i dont know i somewhat lost my interest already. So i guess perhaps i can bump it a little bit by having this loop that I havent tried before simply because of thethe elevation factor that i know would encounter, but still i proceeded :DDD

Most of the time I do some vlogs on my random rides like this, but i dont really have the mood to do it so what i just did is to take a lot of pictures along the way. Well if i was doing my vlog during this ride of mine, im not writing this blog about it :DD but i did take some videos with me. Who knows i might edit it to something else.

Anyway I woke up late almost left home at 9:00AM

So i just said goodbye to our aspin dog shaki, she is a cool dog by the way :D and sweet.

So when i left the weather was quite great, not really that hot but manageable, and managed to push some first few kilometers and reached Brgy Inarawan.

This route that im doing i was really familiar with and a little further I reached this dreaded KM 45 it has an i think a gradient of 11%

When you are almost at the top, you will see this Wildlife Sanctuary and a road that they call Big C because of the curve that motor bikes use to do some turning stuff they lean towards the ground called banking :DDD

Ohh yees so most of the time when im halfway on my route I do take a break in y favorite stopover place because of their great tapsi and coffee of course well I can show you their menu if you are interested.

Ok then so after having a great lunch  i proceeded to traverse already to reach Sta Maria so here are some tourist points of interest while im traversing the road

And finally i was able to reach my destination but this is only haflway going home and im still at the top, i need to traverse a road that i am not familiar with and its getting dark already.

Traversing down to sta maria proper was not an easy task, I cant forget the swarm of flyng termites that I have to deal with before reaching the town proper and its really dark already.

Until I have to decide what fork of the road should i take, good thing that there are local folks around at this time I think this was almost 7:00PM. The fork is kind of eerie good thing i did not push through forward as the locals said

So this this is the first time i reached sta maria proper.

Anyway going home was another exhilarating ride as i need to traverse again some dark areas of mabitac.

And finally got home at 1:00AM the same spot where i have taken the first picture at the bridge :DDD