About

Welcome to Lakwatsero’s Travel Blog.

Who is The Lakwatsero?

The Lakwatsero is Jojo Ayson, born and raised in the not-so-small island-filled country known as the Philippines. Most people primarily know him as a Techie, a Geek, or a Gadgeteer. Seen in recent history at Microsoft events doing demos on Microsoft products ranging from Windows to XBOX. Though he is also one of many interests. This blog strives to showcase 3 of those “other” interests… travel, food, and photography.

In real life.

Professionally, I’ve been in the IT Industry my whole working career. I started out as a Computer Teacher at the Ateneo High School and have been in IT ever since. My career has taken me to companies as small as start ups to as large as SAP and Microsoft. I guess with whatever I do in life, I know that my passions revolve around technology. When I look back at the work I have done, I’ve always excelled around teaching and technology evangelism.

The Lakwatsero

I’ve travelled the world. Starting at an early age, I’ve been all over Europe (Holland, Germany, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Luxemburg, Itally) and America (both coasts). It’s only now that I am exploring my own country… which is full of amazing sights and wonders. I only wish I did this sooner.

And thus is how the Lakwatsero is born.

As implied above, I love travelling. I enjoy watching travel shows and reading travel articles in magazines like PAL’s Mabuhay Magazine. And in all that time I guess I devolved to what is referred to as an “arm chair traveler.” I would dream of travelling the world and travelling the Philippines… and that is where the problems lies… they remained dreams. All plans. No execution.

The one day in December 2008, I was telling a group of friends how I always wanted to go Taal Volcano. We always see it when we go to Tagaytay but I have always heard that you could take a boat to the volcano itself (then again all of those guys in Tagaytay with those signs saying “Boat Ride to Taal” didn’t help). Then after my spiel of saying how I always planned to go there but never did, one of my friends, Jasper, blurted out a dare and said… sige, tara. That weekend, we went to Taal (story here) and that is where it all began. The following week, we went to Mt. Pinatubo. And it’s been a thrill ride ever since.

The Blog

As for this blog, I had been planning (and procrastinating) to work on a travel blog for months. And so here we are.  The Lakwatsero Travel Blog.

For those wondering, I can’t find a dictionary definition for Lakwatsero. But loosely translated it means simply “someone who travels sometimes aimlessly” Of course there are deeper meanings, but let’s leave it at that.

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Hope you enjoy my adventures.

Thanks,

Jojo Ayson
lakwatsero@live.com