Our Trusted Steeds...

We have been riding for more than a decade and we've been here, there and mostly everywhere. Wherever that may be we won't be able to do it without our trusted steeds, our motorcycles. We treat them like family members so we gave them names, much like how you give your kids names :)

Pogi - Our very first ride, a 50cc Honda Dio. We got him in 2004 and he got us hooked on roadtrips.

Macho - Our first real motorcycle, a Honda Wave-125cc. We got him in 2006 right after the birth of our third child. The one we had before him was a scooter named Pogi, since he was bigger and more powerful we named him Macho.

Wendy - Our Yamaha Mio 115cc. We got her on a sunny Wednesday morning in 2010 and she had a bright red orange color reminisccent of a lady's lips on a hot summer night. 

Mercury - Honda CB-400. A 400cc Big Bike which we got in 2011. His silver color earned him the name Mercury, he is as sleek as the element mercury and can wind in and out of tight spots much like quicksilver.

Hammer -  Our youngest but most impressive bike, A Yamaha SZ R153 at 5 months he has already racked up 13,000 Kms. Yep we love riding this bad boy.

Tagaytay, Picnic Grove

We live in Batangas so for a quick trip fix Tagaytay is our usual destination. Me and Mr. Smith were feeling a little cabin fever from being cooped in the house for several days due to work and a few other things. We had been juggling a couple of work related things and didn't have time to go roadtripping. So this fine Sunday we decided a trip to Tagaytay was well in order.

We love going to new places and doing new things, since we didn't have the time to go somewhere farther away Tagaytay had to do, but we decided to do something new. We grilled steaks at the picnic grove :D Mr. Smith had been hankering to do this, he had been asking, bugging in fact for us to buy fresh beef at the Mahogany Market and grill them at the picnic grove. And today he gets his wish.

First stop was the Perpetual Help church in Brgy Sungay Tagaytay City for spiritual guidance then its a bee line to the market. We didn't have plates or anything because we have a nasty habit of doing things impromtu. At the market we got two huge slices of tenderloin weighing almost a pound each, two heads of lettuce, a couple of tomatoes, pepper corns, salt, banana leaves, charcoal, two cups of cooked rice and a small bottle of Knorr (Mr. Smith swears it makes everything taste divine). Hammer our Yamaha SZ did not have his utility box strapped on so I had to carry everything in a thin transparent plastic bag, what a feat.

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