June 14 wasn't exactly bike ride day for me. Getting pumped up for biking can be tough, like trying to grip a wet road. The memory of my canceled bike tour from Holy Week was still bugging me. Losing that trip had really put a damper on my enthusiasm. So I figured, why not try something new and tackle a route I'd been putting off - even if it had a crazy elevation gain? Time to shake things up! I took off with a huge grin on my face.
Normally, I'd vlog a spontaneous ride like this. But for some reason, I just wasn't feeling it. Instead, I took tons of photos along the way. If I had been vlogging, you wouldn't be reading this right now. That being said, I did end up taking some video clips. Who knows, maybe I'll turn them into something cool later on.
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
Update : 10/17/2025
Well what do you know? Interest is coming up little by little, I was not really planning for this clip but I just narrated it anyway.
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