May 11th, 2011: Guest Post by Felicia: While Rob and I have been traipsing all over the world in the past few years, the last time I went on a vacation with my family was way back in 2005. So on this return trip back to Singapore, my Mom suggested that herself, my brother and [...]
Day: 467 My last day in Borneo, my shoulder is screaming with stiffness even after a day of rest in the hostel (where I took no pictures and sat around and watched movies all day, attempting to recuperate). Unwilling to waste another day to the pain, I drag myself out of bed at 6am to catch [...]
Day: 466 My day started off pretty normal for a day on the road. Wake up early, ride my Powerpuff Girl scooter 30 kilometers to the Sememggoh Wildlife Center to check out the semi-wild Orang Utans (it’s more like a natural refuge for confiscated pets and abandoned Orang Utans), then head off on a uber-sweaty [...]
Day 465: Last night, after my noodles and beer, I met Dan from Connecticut who told me of his plan to rent a moped the next day and ride all over the region – and seeing how he had already figured out all the details about where, when, how much and I had no plans, [...]
Day 464: Getting around Southeast Asia using Singapore as a home base is awesomely quick. With just a $80 flight and a hour or so in the air, I can land in dozens of spectacular destinations around the region. Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia are all in this quick radius of Singapore. So when I [...]
April 20, 2011: It’s been a long time since I have done a solo trip, even one as short as the next week will be. Felicia will be heading off for the next 6 days on a mother/daughter getaway to northern Malaysia, so I decided to head to the world’s oldest rainforest and third [...]
Day: 455 Felicia and I woke up this morning without much of a plan, all we really knew was that we had to be out of our hotel by 10am and at the airport by 6pm (the airport being just 30 minutes away from town). We settled on some delicious spicy curry noodles for breakfast [...]
Day: 454 We are trying to love Penang… we really are. Yet after hours of walking around in the insane heat we stand dumbfounded on it’s street corners and wonder, “WTF?” About two-thirds of the town seems deserted and everything seems empty, the “sights” are lackluster, the buses are empty, and the people are quiet. [...]
Day: 453 So with our $10 flights booked, Felicia escaped work 30 minutes early, we double checked our bags and headed to the airport for a quick 1 hour flight to Penang, Malaysia. We arrived shortly after 8pm, and by 9pm we settled into our hotel and were setting out to find the dodgiest alley [...]
Mini Trip: Sitting in our room last night Felicia and I were talking about what to do with her day off on Wednesday, I began lamenting that she couldn’t get Thursday off too, because then we could actually go somewhere. Then she said “Maybe I can…” quickly made a phone call and we have were [...]
