Hello all!
I am not updating my LJ nearly as much as Ben is updating his blog, but thought I'd leave some impressions/accounts of Thailand.
We have been hear nearly 2 weeks, and are planning to get into Laos Thursday or Friday.  We've basically run up the country North-South, with a few diversions.  We started in the resort island of Phuket, then ( Read more... )

I know, I know, that sounds like the beginning of a bad essay for an intro religion course. I'll try not to make the post sound like one ( Read more... )

You know how they do maps with little bubbles that point to certain "sights of interest" or whatever? I wish I could do that on a map of Malaysia, but, alas, my HTML skills are not so good.

Ben and I spent almost 2 weeks on the West Coast for our first trip--Jan 23-Feb 5. We started in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, since we had a free ride with my ( Read more... )

A "real" post is coming about our first "big" trip, but in the mean time, I thought I'd leave you all with a piece of advice on "personal hygiene," courtesy of who ever runs rest stops in Malaysia:


( Read more... )

Malaysia (and the rest of this part of the world, I guess) are in the midst of monsoon season--and this year, it has meant RAIN, RAIN and more RAIN.
We spent Wednesday to Saturday in Singapore, and it poured rain (bad pun, I know).  Somehow, despite the supposedly "tropical" climate (Singapore is basically right on the Equator), I froze the whole ( Read more... )

So, arrived in Malaysia last Thursday, and have noticed the following signs that we're no longer in Kansas (NB--I have never actually been to Kansas):
1. On Saturday, we to get a foot massage by the beach (yum!).  On the way, we ran into two monkeys--and once there, learned that reflexology "cures Most Kinds of Sickness" and is "good for ages" (I ( Read more... )