FOUNDATION DAY AT UPPER BALAMBANGAN
By Fred L. Webb
On the Sabbath, the day before, the current SULADS had gone
out to Upper Balambangan in the SULADS Jeep.
Alberto had gone with them and reported that the road was very muddy and
treacherous. Therefore, it was with some
misgivings that I began the journey from Mountain View College that morning of
November 7, 1999. After stopping in
Lower Lilangayon to purchase some prizes for the village children, we continued
on our way. Reaching the edge of town,
our road veered off to the left of the main road and immediately, the road was
not so good. There were ruts and it was
still slippery from the rain the day before.
I am not the world’s best motorcycle rider. In fact, I have only learned to ride after
coming to the Philippines in 1993.
Before that, I was deathly afraid of motorcycles. We rode along very carefully and cautiously
until reaching Central Lilangayon. There
we met a big mud hole that completed filled the roadway. I could see no way around the mud hole and
quickly decided that I did not want to try to ride through it. We parked the motorcycle in the house of a
friend nearby and began the hike.
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