Traveling with friends. My Actifit Report Card: March 18 2026

Today started with finding pandesal for my parents. They wanted it for breakfast so I get to go hunt for it.

Now the first choice was the local supermarket as you can see in the above image. Unfortunately they were closed so I kept looking. I was very happy to find a little bakery / sari sari which was both open and had pandesal.

Unfortunately they didn't have change for P1000 (about 16.50 HBD). So I had to go back to the hotel to get smaller bills from my mother in law. More steps for the day.

Then returned to get pandesal and more pastry items.

Then I got a message from friends about exploring for the day after they did their laundry. Sounded fine except the laundry they were looking to use was a long way away and they would have to walk on an Expressway.

So I looked up nearby laundries and again walked to see if they were actually open and if they provided wash, dry and fold service. Walked from place to place and told them the best deal then walked to go meet them.

Got the laundry dropped off and walked then to the bakery so they could try hot, fresh, Filipino pandesal.

Then we were off on our journey.

A historic Church was our first stop followed by walking through baclaran.

Intramuros was our second stop where we walked a bit but in the end we hired a kalesa to take us around. The House named rambutan did ask the work then.

We saw the old walls and armaments

And continued the your if the various historic buildings

Then headed to fort Santiago.

The Rizal shine was well maintained and informative about the local hero. The catacombs were kind of eerie and told of the atrocities of war..

.... Seems kind of relevant with today's conflicts.

Then we came out to look at the Pasig Esplanade which is beautiful...

And the slum areas which are not.

After that. They were tired so we headed back. We decided to all get a massage after a rest then head to dinner.

I canvassed for the best place (more steps(. Met them later, more steps. Got a massage then walked back to the hotel then walked to dinner.

All said and done?

Over 20K steps on a busy day :)
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