Road Trips
@SIMPLYD (90722)
Philippines
June 22, 2018 3:58am CST
Whenever I go to our hometown every Saturday then go back to the city on Sunday morning, I take the PhilCab, an air-conditioned public utility van here in our province.
If I travel by night, that isn’t the case now, I play my favorite game on my mobile. But when it’s still daylight, I don’t.
Even if I pass by the same sights, I won’t get tired of looking at the sights that the van passes by.
Especially, when it is s sunny and Mayon Volcano is in its majestic view, I stare in awe. The rice fields and mountains too, complete the sights.
If you are having a road trip and just the passenger, would you play or fiddle on your mobile or sit and look at the views the car passes by?
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
Really, you don't have a mobile. That is I think rare nowadays, as I see here in the Philippines, everyone carries their mobile even while walking in the street.
That is good because you get to do the nicer things instead like watching the scenery.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Jun 18
I get carsick from reading so have to be quick even reading travel info.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
@rakski I don't like the window seat anymore. I take the aisle seat whenever we travel by air-conditioned bus to Manila which travels at nighttime and arrives Manila in the morning. That is because in some place some children throw stones and that might shatter the glass window.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
22 Jun 18
I have travelled by bus several times and the foreign tours are mostly by bus and while on tour my eyes are glued to sights that come my way.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
22 Jun 18
@allknowing . Wow, that might have been a feast to your eyes, I am sure!
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
22 Jun 18
@AKRao24 i cannot forget that sight in New Zealand of thousands of sheep grazing by the roadside prairies that looked like cotton balls.
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
22 Jun 18
If I choose between the two, I will see the scenery along the way.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
22 Jun 18
I love to look at the scenery when we are travelling and rarely sleep. My wife on the other hand prefers to sleep and wake up once we got there! She is not great company to travel with even on the plane. Once the plane is airborne she sleeps until we nearly arrive at our destination.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
22 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD Haha perhaps we should travel together let them sleep and we can talk and enjoy the sights!
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
25 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD It depends which roads, the main highways are three to four lanes each way, the country roads are one lane each way. By chance I took a photo yesterday coming back home to Italy, you see the highway is divided in the middle to avoid accidents, there are 4 lanes each way (high traffic as usual).
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
23 Jun 18
when i ride on a bus, i like to watch the mountains from afar, and if i want to drowse off, i watch the electrical wires, it going up and down, until my eyelids droop.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Jun 18
Good for you that you can fall asleep while on travel. Me, even if the trip is at night, I just can close my eyes, but my mind is active when I am tired of playing on my mobile.
But when it's daylight, I am just watching the scenery as it unfolds.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
26 Jun 18
@ridingbet I am always awake whenever we travel to Aritao. So, I always get to see Sta. Fe. In fact, it's where we always eat our lunch. I love their "dinakdakan" there.
I love Sta. Fe. All buses pass by it when they are bound to Aritao, Bayombong and your place indeed.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
25 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD when we go to the capital city by bus, it is always expected to pass along Sta. Fe-san Jose at the Caraballo mountain range. as what my mother (+) often told us, we wake up to see the lights from down when we are ascending the mountain. even my big brother carries that practice. all of us do that-wake up when the bus travels up the mountains.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
How long is the travel time to your hometown, Ms. LT? Good thing you don't get dizzy playing with your phone while the car is is motion.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Jun 18
@sunrisefan I am just used to traveling by public utility.
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@anamika161088 (11868)
• India
25 Jun 18
I enjoy the side views and the beautiful nature.
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@anamika161088 (11868)
• India
25 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD Yeah I enjoy journeys.. Even repeated one...
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
22 Jun 18
You are lucky to be able to play in the car. I start having a headache and vomiting sensation right away. Anyways even I like to look around at the surroundings.
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
22 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD now my motion sickness is much better. But still I cannot travel a lot
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@sw8sincere (5204)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
I always love to look at the view around me when i sit on the passenger side.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
If it is daylight, it is a feast to the eyes, those sights we see as the bus rolls by.
@simplfred (20608)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
Maybe 70 percent viewing the nature and 30% for my mobile.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
You still can't let go of your mobile.
So, when you travel to Samar, you prefer to see the sights also. 
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
25 Jun 18
I think I would enjoy looking at the view. I find that more interesting than staring at a screen.
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@neelia_lyn (2003)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
I love looking at the views when on a road trip and even if I passed certain views a lot of times, they are still lovely to look at. I'd only use my mobile more to take photos than to fiddle with it.
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@neelia_lyn (2003)
• Philippines
22 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD You can take some when you pass by it again.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Jun 18
@neelia_lyn Yes, I always get the chance to pass by there, however sometimes the public utility car runs fast.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
27 Jun 18
I know that you will just enjoy the sights and the music.
That's also what I do when i travel. But when it's nighttime, I play while I listen from my mobile thru earphones. 
That's also what I do when i travel. But when it's nighttime, I play while I listen from my mobile thru earphones. 
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Jun 18
I would definitely look at the view if it was ruralviews , will my lot a bit maybe.like you I never tire of looking at the old familiar sights on the way home
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Jun 18
@responsiveme Yes, we get ideas from houses we see.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
25 Jun 18
@SIMPLYD yes...And my dream house is made up of all those taking some features of each
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