(Hey! We're in Bangkok! First Thailand post coming soon...first, last post from Malaysia!) (Also-please forgive if this reads like a guide book, I've been reading alot of the Thailand one lately!) We had very little idea what to expect of Georgetown, arriving in thick midday traffic. The guidebook describes it as a "big bustling town without a beach in sight", but then vaguely says that it "retains more cultural history than anywhere else in the country". In t...

I'm starting to fall behind a bit on my posts, so these next two may come out like Coles notes, bear with me. The four hour bus ride from KL to Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands began innocently enough, save a small ticket mixup where an agent told us Abbey didn't need a ticket...which we confusingly accepted, without realizing that it meant that she actually didn't have a seat. In the end, no matter. We fashioned one out of our backpacks at the back of the plu...

Old Melaka has a vast and rich history dating back to the 15th century. Best to google it if you're really interested, but to summarize; Melaka was a thriving port long before Singapore even had a paved road. Battles aplenty took place with cannons and gunships and rotating occupations. The Chinese seized it from the Malays, the Portuguese from the Chinese, then there were the Dutch and also the English. I lose track. Rich trade of lucious sounding things like i...

At the end of five days in KL, we can't really decide how we feel about it. The largeness of it is both refreshing and annoying. Mike and I both feel as if we haven't really seen the city, even though we hit all the spots we had targeted. Perhaps we're thrown off by the repressive heat that magnifies the car exhausts and street smells, or by the fact that we've spent twice what we did in Bali in five days. Perhaps the vast differences in people and styles and man...

Malaysia! It was rather surreal getting on an airplane and not flying home, but to a new country. That all went well. Air Asia is constantly expanding, so the plane was new, practically freshly removed from it's shrink-wrap. A two hour flight, and then Voila - new country! I keep finding I'm subconciously forcing myself to 'get' it. Like I'll find myself thinking "I'm brushing my teeth in MALAYSIA" or "this is a MALAYSIAN orange". I did this the first couple of ...