This website is maintained by a group of friends called Continental Frontiers Adventures Resources composed of Sundancer, Quemo Sabe, Chino, Manoy, Gitano, Hombre & Juan - http://www.facebook.com/people/Juan-Luna-Ibarrizto/100000390597265
"Ne craignez querelles, mais cherchent des aventures."
"Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures."
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas pere 1802-1870
"Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures."
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas pere 1802-1870
Manoy worked
at Iloilo Province Capitol from 1975 to 1978 before coming to Canada.
He investigated shady labor recruiters for the Middle East and ‘treasure
hunters’ looking for the fabled WW II Yamashita treasure. The
recruiters and the hunters were conmen fleecing the town folks who want
their children to work abroad. It usually meant that the families have
to sell the water buffalos used to till the farms in order to pay the
recruiters, which is a bummer if you are a farmer. When the applicants
get conned they end up in “Saudi Sarabia”, euphemism for a short plane
trip to Cebu International. The treasure hunters sold shares for a hole
in the ground with no gold, only stagnant and muddy waters. When the
conmen are arrested new conmen take their places and the evil cycle
continues.
Gitano
studied at MIT HS Kabacan, KNCHS class 1967, MSU Marawi Batch 1967,
and graduated college from NDMC in 1973. He has relatives in Signal
Hill, Cotabato City; Malapag, Carmen, North Cotabato; Kibawe, Bukidnon;
Marbel, & Gensan, South Cotabato; and Davao City.
Hombre
hung out with Major Sam of the 4Masyu band, and Cap Simoy of the
4aMIGos band at Camp Evang, CdO in 1974. He met Baron, Abdul, Chabacano,
Raffy, Bay Abas, Hudas, Satanas, Cat, Jack & Jake, Shaft Malabang,
and many other color full figures in Sam’s and Cap’s merry bands of
marauders. Hombre passed an integree exam and was offered a chance by Cap to start a life that would have led to a star studded career but Hombre
declined, and decided to come to Canada instead in 1978 and did not
regret it even though his classmates have now retired with stars on
their shoulders.
Manoy, Gitano, and Hombre
are descendants of one of the three oldest clans in RP. In 1849 Spanish
Gov Gen Claveria decreed that natives of the Filipinas colony,
henceforth use surnames. Only the descendants of the three native
chiefs i.e. Lacandola, Humabon, and Tupas,* were allowed to retain their names, dating back to 1521 when Fernando Magallanes landed in Cebu. Manoy, Gitano, and Hombre belong to the Third Clan.
The
clan have relatives all over Visayas and Mindanao. The clan count an
ex-senator from Davao City; an ex-congressman from Roxas City; an
ex-governor, an ex-vice governor, two incumbent congressmen, an
incumbent senator, an incumbent town mayor, all from Iloilo province; an
incumbent governor and retired AFP CoS from Negros Occidental, an
ex-PNP director general from Luzon as prominent relatives. Other
professions of members of the clan include lawyers, doctors nurses and
the military. Numerous cousins reside in cities all over North America
and Europe.
Sundancer & Juan met
all the member-friends at the CFAR campings, bivouacs and long trips in
the boonies, the wilderness and neighborhood houses in Canada.
Contact: Continental Frontiers Adventures Resources at: hombresiete@gmail.com
