TRAVEL CONTINUOUSLY WORKSHOP - Coron Day One

G'day everyone, my name's Brandon Bruce from YouTube channel Escaping Comfort Zone, and you're watching The Life of Jord. I hope you guys enjoy, and this is my life. Good morning, and welcome back to Coron. Today is the first day of the Travel Continuously event here in Coron. Some of you guys will remember that I put this event up a few months ago, and I said that we were inviting eight aspiring bloggers, vloggers, and content creators to come here with us in Coron to learn how to do YouTube, how to do Instagram, how to create content, and how to travel continuously. Everyone's arrived here now, and we're ready to kick off the week. We've got loads of stuff planned, me and my friend Rich have organized it all, and we are just about to begin. Okay, let me introduce some of the crew. It's just started raining a little bit, but that's not going to stop us. Just a tiny bit. Just tropical rain, it's fine. All right, let me go say hi to people. Here are some of the gang, enjoying the rain. It's tropical rain, no big deal. This is about half the crew, then we've got more arriving in a minute. So this is our base for the next seven days. I actually stayed here two years ago, I collaborated with this hotel, and then because of that we thought it would be the perfect place to do this event. So we booked it out, we've got 10 rooms here, everyone's staying here for the next week while we explore Coron, and we use this as our base to show people how to do this. It's Mr. George Hammond. What's up? How's it going, man? This isn't a very good intro angle. Especially with me topless. Yeah, there you go. That's better. So we've got George and Sophia. How's it going? George Hammond, is this the one? And Sophia Pope. Just came from Vietnam, right? Yeah, man. Yeah, just this morning. See you up there. Yeah, see you at the hotel. So this is us. Seriously, the sunset from up here is insane. Got people chilling in the hot tub, and just this panoramic view around makes this place awesome. It's the Funny Lion Hotel, by the way, in case I haven't mentioned that. Everyone's just chilling behind. Today is the introduction, and then tomorrow is when we get started. I'm going to stop filming now, and enjoy the sunset, chat to a few people, and then we'll pick up again for dinner. It's Olivia's favorite time of day. Dinner time. Is it cocktail time? Hello. Good evening. Ooh, we have a special dinner lined up for us now. I have some news for you. What? We'll have a drink she paid for, but wine is included. Oh, thank you. Thank you. So I ordered you some wine. Thank you. White wine? Yeah. Oh. Thank you. So we have sea urchin to try. I have never tried that. This is ridiculous. The Funny Lion just brought us a spread, and look at this food. It's taking over the whole plate. The whole table, even. It's Nick. Say hi, Nick. Hello. There wasn't enough food, now comes the crab. So Rich has a little friend to try. No. We've been offered some Balut, and Rich is the first to go. What's the best way to eat it now? Eyes closed. Slurp it. Oh, that's gross. No, that's it. That's gross. Okay. How is it? It's pretty bold. It's like chicken soup. It's like fetus. Now I know I've killed the rest of the man. But if you want to have more juice, you can put vinegar in it. You've got to get all the fetus here. Is that the best beer in the world? Yeah, it's the best beer. What format do you usually drink? Vomit. Good. After weaning. Tastes like chicken. It's like chicken. It's $300. We've got everyone going for Balut right now. I'm scared to have Balut. It stays there for two minutes. How is it? The juice. I think everyone so far said that's alright. Really? Then you didn't ask me yet. You keep outdoing yourselves. We've done the morning sessions already. This place. This epic view behind. I did a bit of an introduction. Anton did his. And now we've just had lunch. And Jord is going to do his about how he started on Instagram. And how he got to where he is now. After that, this is the first workshop day. And then after that, we're going to be climbing Mount Tapias. Up to the top. For what is meant to be an epic view of Coron. Yeah, we're going to talk about how it started. That is the morning and afternoon sessions done for today. And now we're on a walk up to Mount Tapias. We've got the whole crew behind. I think it's about a 45 minute walk up to the top. And it should be a really cool view. But like we said, we haven't done this yet. So fingers crossed it all goes well. He's got a business card. There you go. We just got to the beginning of Mount Tapias. Apparently it's 700 stairs up to the top. So we've walked through town. And now we need to get to the top for sunset. Everyone just found the Balut at the beginning of the hike as well. And after yesterday, I don't think anyone tried it. How are you doing? Alright. Not quite dead. Well, this is your first time in Philippines, right? Yeah. So you're kind of still acclimatizing a bit. Yeah, a little bit. This is probably the best way to do it. Jumping at the deep end. I said to everyone this would be really easy. Like a 30 minute hike. But I'm sweating out a lot. It's just because it's so hot. And it's actually... We're on about step 300 right now. And we just have another 400 to go. It's not that bad. It's alright. And the view already, as we're looking around, is pretty nuts. Almost. So close. Almost there. It's tough. We're in Germany all over again. No. This is like a sweet, sweet hike. That's just about it. We've made the most of the light up here. Got an epic sunset. And George has just been giving some tips for Instagram and sunset photography and stuff that I hadn't even thought about myself. And I think that's the thing about doing these sort of things. You never stop learning. You never stop learning from people around you. And George has just been helping the other people here and me with a few tips. Which is very cool. We're going to head down now, I think. Make the hike down. And go and find some dinner. Yeah. Really cool way to finish the day. Going up Mount Tapias for the first time. And seeing that epic sunset with everyone. We're about to go out for dinner in town. I'm going to leave the video here and just pick it up again with you guys tomorrow when we go on the first island hopping trip. It's been so cool and so rewarding these past two days to see all of these guys coming here that want to learn how to become content creators. That want to learn how to travel continuously. And it's also been great to see George and Anton imparting their wisdom of how they've done it and how they started their blogs and Instagrams. And just seeing everyone interact has been really, really cool. Like I just said, we're starting the first island hopping trip tomorrow and then we have another one coming up later in the week. I'm going to try and show you as much as possible from this week. And I'm really looking forward to what we've got planned. I'm going to finish it here. So again, see you tomorrow. Thank you for watching. And this is my life.