Manila, Philippines • June 2013. Balikbayan: Touching Down in Manila with Atet. tess perseveranda, atet, balikbayan, kapamilya, naia arrival, ninoy aquino international airport, united airlines, ua183, manila homecoming, ofw travel, filipino american, diaspora, 2013 philippines trip Manila, Philippines • June 2013 Balikbayan: Touching Down in Manila with Atet After three flights and roughly thirty hours in the air — San Francisco to Honolulu to Guam to Manila — we landed at NAIA with the whole cabin already on its feet, luggage in hand. Atet in the aisle as UA183 taxis in from Guam — NAIA, June 19, 2013. We are on the ground in Manila. The photo above says 5:58 in the morning, and that is not a mistake exactly — it is just wrong on purpose, or rather wrong because I never got around to it. My camera, a little Nikon 1 J1, is still set to California time. I never reset it before we left SFO, so every frame from this trip is going to be off ...