Some days are just the type of days that fill me up and remind me why we are doing this. Yesterday was one of those days. Bicycling through the Balinese countryside with new international friends, stopping to visit the homes…
Rafting the Rain Forest!
Today we went white water rafting through the Balinese rain forest. What a rush! While never quite sure what you are signing up for in SE Asia, we asked around town, looking for something unusual that we haven’t done…
Snorkeling at the Amazing Pulau Menjangan
Yesterday, we went for a fantastic snorkel adventure on Pulau Menjangan, a national park and snorkelers’ haven 5 miles off the northwest coast of Bali. Home to amazing species of marina fauna and more than 1500 species of coral, sponges…
Return to Yogyakarta – by Nathan!
One of the places that I have always remembered fondly from our SE Asia pre-honeymoon twenty years ago was the central Javanese town of Yogyakarta. It is home to some of the world’s most amazing 8th and 9th century…
Singapore: The Land of Flat Sidewalks and Amazing Beauty
Our week in Singapore was our first week in a developed country since we left Japan in early October. In over four months, we had stopped noticing the dangerously uneven sidewalks, the trash discarded in the gutters, the incessant need…
Malaysia and Singapore
In Malaysia there are 70 people per square kilometer. Compared to the U.S.A. with 33 people per square kilometer, Malaysia is packed. Singapore is even more densely packed, with 7350 people per sq km. Both of these countries are very…
Barrier Free at the Singapore Zoo
A Singapore favorite for sure was the day we hit the beloved Singapore Zoo. A highlight that Nathan and I remembered from our trip many years ago, we were not let down. The borderless boundary system made it feel as…
Legoland Malaysia! (Need I say more?)
On the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula is Johor Bahru, a town my boys have been looking forward to for a long time if for no other reason than to go to Legoland Malaysia! Well, we finally made it…
Making Pewter at Royal Selangor
Today, with a lot of hard pounding and some creative interpretation, the boys and their friends from Four Over The Edge got to make their own pewter bowls at the Royal Selangor Visitor Center. What an interesting adventure! Royal Selangor…
Penang’s Beautiful Kek Lok Si Temple
Our final week of five in Penang, and we finally made it to Kek Lok Si Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia and certainly, one of the highlights of Penang island. Translated as the “Temple of Supreme Bliss”, it…