On August 13th we said goodbye to Penang and set out for Malaysian Borneo.  Borneo is similar to the Galapagos insofar as it’s beautiful, full of crazy wildlife, has some of the best scuba diving in the world, and… it’s relatively…

As Rachel briefly mentioned in her street food post, we started off our adventures looking for a clinic at which she could have the cut on her foot examined.  The nice but not very helpful young man at our hotel…

We loved the myriad delicious and cheap street food options available all over Kuala Lumpur, and we took full advantage of them. But as pretty much any Malaysian will tell you, Penang is the go-to food (I hate and refuse…

After a few days of urban exploration in KL, it was time to head to our first Southeast Asia beach.  Tioman Island sits off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia.  We divided our twelve days there between two of its beaches: Salang on…

On July 14th we sadly left Crete.  I’ve been thinking of our trip in terms of smaller pieces, each of which is defined by geography.  The first piece was South America; the second was Europe (counting Turkey as part of Europe);…