as posted by Sir FredrockS and Sir Bunny at http://hondabravo.ning.com
The ride to Masinloc was actually not the original destination, Bunny, Jay n their uncle was supposed to go to Palauig, still part of the great province of Zambales, Bunny who I met thru PBRC asked me if I wanted to Join the trip, to which I said YES!, but the plan was changed to Pundakit instead, so at this point in time only 3 were sure of going..Bunny, Jay and me, Fred..but due to some nice pictures of Koto Kidz Pool shown to Jay the 2 masterminds decided to change the trip going to Pundakit to Masinloc instead....... Through text messages Bunny was able to let me know that we are scheduled to go to Masinloc on a Sunday morning...6am was the meet up time, meeting place is to be at Bunny's net cafe in San Marcelino Zambales.
Sunday July 26, 2009
6am...meeting place, Bunny served coffee and bread, I had coffee and 2 sticks of Marlboro Gold, after saying goodbye to Bunny’s better half we proceeded with the trip (around 6:30am)
Present was 3 glorious bravos of Zambales and their extremely good looking drivers (heehaw) namely:
1) Bunny - Red Bravo ( new sparkplug, new shocks, new side mirrors)
2) Jay - Black Bravo (all stock)
3) Fred - Black airbrushed Bravo
We drove 50-60 km/hr on our beloved bravos while enjoying the green green grasses and trees along the way, first stop (aka YOSIBREAK!) was at the town of Cabangan, Zambales..Along the way going to Iba, Zambales (capital of Zambales Province) I noticed that my gas was almost empty...alarmed, i asked Jay (Lead Rider) to stop at the nearest gas station.. Which happened to be Flying V, maybe tune up was all I needed...no worries...so on we went ...2nd stop was the town of Iba Zambales..yosibreak (2 sticks per rider), Jay asked for directions from a man who owned a bicycle/motor shop (He was a type 1 Bravo owner..Jay introduced him to the PBRC site (he told Jay he will check the website)...Bunny n Jay had bottled water; I had Gatorade since I had a very bad case of a Hangover From Hell...hehehe! No cops were around so we took a quick leak at the nearest wall we could find...hahaha...
On our valiant steel (and plastic hehe) Bravo horses we proceeded to Masinloc...a very long n winding stretch of asphalt...but the roads were great, in some instances it played on my mind to see how fast my bravo could go but why do that when we are enjoying cruising @ 50-60 km/hr...It went well except when bunny who was a few meters behind me heard funny noises coming from my Bravo...it was the my rear break tight as.. (should I say ass?)...hehe...after loosing it up on we went again..going up a hill same sounds from the rear breaks were back...we passed by a vulcanizing shop but no mechanic was around so the nice dude just helped properly loosen the rear break..Go!
Finally we were at the entry point going to Koto Kidz Pool..But wait...there's more...more checkpoints and 27 kilometers of ROUGH ROAD!!!...the guards were nice...the rough road was rough hahahaha! At 8 kms we had our first yosi break and a very cool view (check pics @ bunny's profile)...and i could hear my bravo cursing at me for giving him hell hehehehe!...our bodies were painful our wrist hurt...but wait!!! There’s more!!!..19kms more of stones, mud and potholes....whaaat?.....did I mentioned BANGIN? yes bangin (hindi bangin chicks or worst each other ha..hehe.. Can’t find the English word for it in my brain right now)...to make the long story short we were able to reach the Majestic Place of Koto...all the body pains went away simply by just looking at the surroundings..The hanging bridge, the cool river n the awesome waterfalls, they have great cottages too ( 900php 3 beds/ 1,500 for a family of ten members).
Ok ok the place was majestic..But we were hungry we could eat a whole cow so we asked for food…reply! no food daw!..We had to go back to town to ask a certain store to cook for us...we could not wait that long, at least I could’nt...but, hey!.. We had 4 sticks of Marlboro gold left..So, we had soft drinks then we saw that there were canned goods in the counter...we bought youngstown cornbeef and a small hunts pork n beans (they should call it beans n beans...as I saw no pork at all hehehe)..Direct from the can we ate like kings...hehehe…..after eating Ligo time!...we went at the side of the resort only to be dumfounded that jay was the only one who can enjoy the water n the diving board..20 feet of water cold as ice...hell NO!..Bunny and I can’t swim!!!..secret ha…….lucky Jay…hmm, is it too late to take swimming lessons?....
The Trip Home….1 pm
Awww shocks, madilim d ulap….Go Pa rin…
……and it rained…we had to stop by a store somewhere along the way hoping the rain would stop...yosiyosi ulit…but it never did so on we went again, carefully n efficiently driving through the slippery rough road..Man, some stones were literally sharp and sticking up the ground ready to slice up our precious tires…luckily...we were lucky...hehe…around 12 kms from the majestic place there were brown water coming (err ,..I mean raging) from the fields...rain,mud,stones and now this..Wahhh, Jay said we should cross…so we crossed...luckily...again...we were lucky hehe…half our Bravo were submerged (tama ba ung term?..parang submarine lumubog eh…hahahaha!)..Hard as it was..we survived that super rough road wet, dirty and aching…but with smiles on our faces…after that experience we were very very very hungry…it was raining hard so we decided to just eat at Iba...after arriving at Iba at around 5pm Jay recommended we eat at ths fine restaurant + BON’S…God, it was freezing cold inside (or basa lang cguro kami..We were literally dripping wet)...so we ordered for coffee first before deciding what to eat.Jay n Bunny excused themselves to go the CR..To remove their very wet socks…my shoes by the way...natangal swelas hahaha….we ordered pinapaitan,sizzling sisig n chopseuy...each order good for two persons…that was how hungry we were..2 orders of rice for each one...i think Jay wanted to order 1 more rice...hehe...after eating...yosi 2sticks each…then we road our iron horses…after a long and wet drive we finally reached San Marcelino at 7 pm I think..I said thank you and Goodbye to Jay and Bunny...I have another 10 mins of rain and asphalt to conquer... I think I conquered it at 5 mins hehe…the trip was fun n worth the drive..I would gladly go on any trip with these two guys…except at that 27 kilometer rough road...my bravo would be so happy not to set foot...err, tires on that road again..Let’s rent a 4x4 pick up next time guys…hehehe
Hope to ride with more PBRC guys and Gal..n Thorid..Hi thorid pashot ka na!!!
for wrong spellings n grammar n proper sentence constructions...forgive me please...tao lang po.....mwuah
some additional inputs....
on the way home... when we stopped at a store.... we asked the store owner if she still has deer meat or wild boar meat, the lady told us there was nothing left... -- we should have bought the meat when we're still going up the mountain.... the guards at the check point told us that we can find lots of store to buy it but we didn't find any.
after eating in Iba... we bought pasalubong for our kumanders.... we bought pastillas and chicharon....
after buying we headed home...
more photos here.
