We were up early and had the complimentary breakfast at Precious Garden Resort and Hotel. We paid our hotel bill 18,600 pesos (US $372.00) for six nights and left there about 7:00am and stopped at the nearby Central Convenience (2C) store and loaded up on ice for the cooler, drinks, and a few snacks for the road trip.
We had chosen to drive to the port of Cagayan de Oro City on the middle north coast of Mindanao and take a Roll-On Roll-Off (RORO) ferry directly to Cebu City. We drove the short distance south to the Samal Ferry Terminal, Babak, Island Garden City of Samal. We paid the 200.00 peso (US $4.00) ferry fee and took the short trip across the bay to Samal Ferry Wharf, Sasa Barge Road, Buhangin, Davao City arriving there a little after 7:30am.
We headed west then north through Davao City and the traffic was heavy as usual.
Outside of Davao City the traffic diminished and the roads were almost empty. We stopped at a road side stand that was selling the pointy barbed durian, purple mangosteen, round tanned lanzones, and the round green pomelo fruits. We bought some durians, lanzones, and pomelo fruits and stored them under the blue tarp in the bed of the truck.
We continued north through central Mindanao towards Cagayan de Oro City. The scenery was full of brilliant green foliage, had spouts of rain through some of the mountain passes, at times it appear the clouds were sitting on the mountain tops, and we had a few detour areas around washed out roads.
We arrived in the port of Cagayan de Oro City around 16:30pm. We purchased our passage from Trans-Asia Shipping Lines: the truck cost about 12,500 pesos (US $250.00) and three cabin berths was 5,100 pesos (US $102.00).
We drove and parked the truck aboard M/V Trans-Asia 10 RORO ferry around 7:00pm and headed to our cabin.
The RORO ferry departed the port of Cagayan de Oro City around 8:00pm and arrived at the port of Cebu City at around 05:30am. We had to wait until a lot of the cargo was off loaded before we were cleared to drive the truck off. From the port we headed south and arrived back at our house at Oceanside subdivision, Naga City, Cebu just before 09:00am.
