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Carl is a freelance journalist, a visual artist, and a content creator who goes around on a motorbike. He currently resides in the "summer Capital" of the Philippines, also the so-called City of Pines, Baguio City. He uses the name Baguio Smile as his cyber name.

The contents of this blog are news and articles he wrote for his news outfits. Some were published and some didn't make it. Most of them are tourism-related articles.

Join him on his travels and see not only the beautiful people and places but what's behind the scenes and what made them exceptional.

The mosaic of the blogger's image was created from a thousand of his photos.

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