Pyroclastic lava flows down the left side of Mayon.

A plate of sizzling calamari for appetizer with San Miguel beer while viewing
the Mayon volcano eruptions at a local beer house with blaring rock music
in the background is a surreal but wonderful experience.

Like the pied piper, me with my video camera gets a following.
Local children hams it up for me at Cagsawa site.

Necessary family ride with no safety (helmets)

 At our Tabiguian family property, I found the caretaker's basic kitchen essentials minimal.
Here, electricity and running water is non-existent.

Children abound in a simple life in the county-side where the
unobstructed view across the main road is the magnificent Mayon Volcano.

I ponder seeing children tending the farming chores.
What does their future hold?

At the Tabiguian property, there are narrow footpaths that provide
"right of way" passage of neighborhood farmers heading to and from the main road.

A sampling of abundance found, these are bananas just plucked from the trees.
Some are bound to the local market for barter and some are for consumption.

The ubiquitous jeepney plies in almost all the places I've been.
This scene was the market area of Tabaco, Albay.

Mayon Volcano, the most perfect coned active volcano came to view
during my flight for my first ever return visit to my father's birthplace.
I was greeted with a spectacular show of multiple eruptions for a few days.

Offtakes: (L) Beam, my awesome cousin, and my trusted guide around Bicol
and my main transportation resource steps out of a vulcanizing shop
to get a front tire fixed. (R) A self-video at the low budget hotel in Tabaco.

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