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If I were to list all my dream destinations, South Korea would be up there in the top 5. I'd always wanted to go there but never really made it a reality because I thought the visa process was much too complicated (It's totally the opposite though! I blogged about my visa application process here.) A couple of months ago, on my birthday week, I finally realized my dream and spent 6 days in Korea. 6 days is too short to fully enjoy the place, but that's all I had so I had to make do.

Since I have acquired a new job, one that requires me to report at an actual office, my longer travels will significantly become less frequent. No more staying abroad for months. At most, I can spend two weeks away, but that is if I decide to take my vacation leaves all in one go, which is kind of not possible. Now before I regret my decision of leaving my work-from-home job, I give you the list of places I want to visit this year.

There's just a couple more days before we officially say goodbye to 2016. This year has been crazy! I've had a lot of memories, good and bad. My year-end blues came early this year which resulted to hard decisions being made. It was such a depressing time but I am happy that I'm leaving some things behind in 2016. It's impossible to tell you all of the great stories in one post, so I'm posting pictures instead. (This would've been easier had I been a diligent blogger!)

January

Started the year by meeting up with old friends.

My friends decided to pay me a visit in my hometown Zamboanga City. We'd been talking about this for a very long time but plans were never realized until one day, we all just sat down and booked a ticket. They scheduled a 12-day trip so I wrote an itinerary for us to explore a couple of cities in Mindanao too.

First stop: Dipolog City.

Our main purpose was to go to Dakak, but since we told ourselves this was going to be a budget trip, we opted to book accommodations in Dipolog and just travel to Dapitan for Dakak. My friends arrived on April 4, and we hopped on a Rural Transit bus to Dipolog early the next day.

One thing I don't like about traveling is the logistics involved. All that planning! Which hotel should I book? Which airline should I use? How much money should I bring? And dun dun dun dun, how do I friggin' get a visa?! It's such a daunting task that sometimes, I wish I could just magically transport myself to another country without having to go through all the hassle. But such is a traveler's life, and if a girl wants to travel, a girl's gotta get that visa.