One Country at a Time
Posted in Honeymoonin', The Travel Bug on Jul 12th, 2010
When we initially tried to leave for our honeymoon on May 28, the early 1900′s-style door knob came off in my hand, locking us inside our apartment. I should have taken that as a sign that things were just not destined to go our way. Still, SVV managed to pry us out with a crow [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, Asia, Borneo, Honeymoonin', Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Photo Friday, The Travel Bug on Jul 9th, 2010
Even though we spent the first full week of our honeymoon on the west coast of Borneo just outside of Sabah’s main city Kota Kinabalu, the majority of what little we saw of the city was by way of bumpy taxi. Or from the back of a bumpy boat. You see, KK, as the locals [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, Borneo, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, The Travel Bug on Jun 30th, 2010
“No one’s scared of snakes, are they?” our Malay guide inquired before we set out in the jungle on our trek through the nature reserve at the Shangri-La Rasa Ria. A Scottish woman’s hand shot in the air, as she exclaimed in a heavy brogue, “who isn’t?!” then realized she was the only one who [...]
Posted in Asia, Photo Friday, Taipei, Taiwan, The Travel Bug on Jun 25th, 2010
We were supposed to end our honeymoon in Vietnam. That didn’t happen, for reasons I’ll detail on another day. Instead, we found ourselves in Taiwan’s bustling capital for the final few days of our Southeast Asia follies. Truth be told, I’d never had a burning desire to go to Taiwan. I’d connected through the airport [...]
