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Last night we partied Muslim style! I got an email from cousin Steve warning me about Islamic terrorists and another from my sweet Cindy worried about pirates in the Straits of Malacca. Well we drove right by them thar straits and saw a boat out in the water. I kept […]
This morning we attended a huge tourism conference organized to promote tourism in Malaysia. More than 400 travel writers and agents from 33 countries were in the big hall, and among these delegates were men in suits from Iran. I have always wanted to go to Iran and write a […]
It’s six-thirty am here in Melaka, (the alternate spelling for this town we’re in on the Malaysian coast) and it’s six-thirty PM where I live. So no need to change my watch, but we’re in different zones, I’m just going into 7/7 and they are winding up 7/6. At the […]
Reading the Sun newspaper in KL and found a sad story. There was a diagram that showed the path of a young mother, who walked with her three kids down a street, around a hedge, and onto the train tracks, just ahead of a big curve. You can guess what […]
Today’s first stop was the ornate palace of the king. Outside the guilded gates, soldiers stood in crisp uniforms, leaning against silver guns, while tourists snapped photos of their relatives hanging out next to the men. Other guards sat on horseback, while click, click went the cameras. The gates suddenly […]
How about some chicken bread, or hotdog bread, or savory rolls? This bakery had so many different varieties of meat, dough, and creative kinds of ingredients I’d never thought you could bake into a roll or bun.
My Johnny Jet moment of the trip came when we were having dinner at the revolving restaurant atop the Kuala Lumpur Tower. Perched 450 feet above a rainforest, where monkeys live, this edifice is now the fourth tallest tower, and we enjoyed a Malaysian buffet with lovely fish and seafood […]
The search for free WiFi goes on…just as soon as you begin to assume that it’s free everywhere, you find so many different place that charge for it. Our hotel, the Boulevard, in mid valley, just outside the center of Kuala Lumpur, has WiFi…but it costs. Then I brought the […]
The longest flight in the world on Singapore Airlines wasn’t that bad, even though unlike our Travel maven Kent, I didn’t get an upgrade to business class. They called my name and gave me a ticket for a seat at the start of the aisle, so it was legroom aplenty. […]
I am nervously awaiting my long-haul flight from Newark to Singapore tonight. Well, not nervous, but I have that antsy sort of feeling I get when I’m leaving on a big trip. The cafe is incredibly slow, so slow in fact that we’ll probably close at noon. Who knew that […]
Garrison Keillor is a lot of fun close up. We are heading tonight for our fourth annual pilgrimage to watch the recording of the last Prairie Home Companion show tonight at Tanglewood. The lawn picnic we prepare is usually luscious…with Bill’s strawberries and snap peas, fine chilled wines, delicacies from […]
