I got drafted to be one of the Hares for the Hash next week. Only one other person showed up for the Wednesday Walkers group hike, so I drafted him to help me scout a trail.
The On-Home venue next week is Da’Kudos on Baloy Beach. I used always to enjoy walking the river bank to Baloy, but someone blocked access a couple of years ago. I wanted to see if anything had changed recently, so off we went. Before we reached the cutoff to the Baloy road, a woman said, “you can’t get through there, it’s closed.” Damn. But then she told us, “you can come this way” and led us through her yard and pointed to a path leading to the road. I thanked her gave her some cookies and asked if we could have a group come this way on Monday and she said that would be fine. So, we’ll have something new next week at least.
Once we were on Baloy I suggested we do my idea for the trail in reverse and that worked out fine. My co-Hare is going to add a loop with another climb (my trail only has one hill) so the die-hards will be happy. We’ll finalize our plans this weekend and mark the trail on Sunday or Monday morning.
I baked a carrot cake for the Hideaway feeding last night. Actually, I added raisins to the recipe, so it was technically a carrot-raisin cake I guess. The girls went crazy for it and it disappeared quickly. I got lazy and sent Joy out to buy whatever food the girls wanted. She came back with fried chicken and some pancit, a Filipino noodle dish, and that was popular with the girls too.
Eating, drinking, and some pool filled the hours at Hideaway. It took Joy three games to beat me twice this time, so I guess that shows some improvement on my part. Griff, the manager, is trying to recruit me for a new dart league team, but I’m really not sure I want to get back into that routine. We’ll see if the bug to play bites me again.
Did my nightcap at Wet Spot, then brought home some chicken fingers and a slice of pecan pie from Sit-n-Bowl. Went to bed fat and happy.
Sit-n-Bowl
New bar/restaurant?
Pancit looks like a noodle dish found everywhere in Asia.
It was generous of that lady to let you through her property and to say yes to future passersby.
I hope the Hashers enjoy your trail.
LOL I was going to say the exact same thing that Kevin did about the noodle dish. Pick a country in SE Asia, and they have a very similar dish, with only the name being different.
Probably wouldn’t matter, but I wonder what the law in the Philippines says about beach access. Even if it were technically legal to be able to access the beach, does not seem like a battle to fight.
Brain, Yeah, pancit and its cousins are ubiquitous throughout Asia I’m sure.
I don’t know about the access laws or if they even have them. The resorts usually want to charge you to just pass through, but if you look (and walk) hard enough, there are places that provide open access to the water. The place I was talking about was on the riverside. The only way back to the road was through someone’s private property, so I was glad when they gave permission. And yeah, as a foreigner I’d lose any fight before I started.
Kev, geez, I did it again. Oh well, at least I didn’t call it Shit-n-Bull.
Yeah, I just hope she is there on Monday to grant access.