A day in the lives of one-time communist rebels

Part V – Conclusion

THE road back to Manila was, oh, so long. We departed from the Juaning Rivera house at around 4 o’clock in the afternoon and it was past 7 o’clock in the evening when we got to the Balintawak Exit of the North Luzon Expressway. That’s more than an hour travel time in excess of the average two hours of negotiating the distance under normal circumstances. The return trip proved abnormal, and it mystified.