A crested tern at Freycinet Marine Farm eyes the water… …goes in for the kill… …and comes up short. But lo! He doesn’t give up. Before I could blink twice, he lobbied for a second attempt…he shoots…he scores! A close-up of his prize. He sucked that bad boy down like he hadn’t eaten for weeks [...]
Going to the Chapel: The Reception
July 29, 2010 By 21 Comments
After the ceremony, the rest of our wedding day was a total blur. Were we really there? Did we experience the following four hours? I don’t actually believe it. It all seems like a complete dream. I now fully understand what every bride before me was talking about. But before we could get to the [...]
Discovering a Medieval Castle in France
July 26, 2010 By 11 Comments
Around the time many of you confessed you’d like to see, hear and read other travelers’ voices around here, American-in-Paris Danee Gilmartin dropped me a note offering to guest blog on C&C. As luck would have it, I was leaving just days later for Tassie and could really use the help. I checked out some [...]
Photo Friday: Gaya Island, Borneo
July 23, 2010 By 12 Comments
In the beginning, our sole purpose for spending the first week of our honeymoon in Borneo was to check out this new resort, Bunga Raya, that had recently open and with which I was obsessed. (Or so I thought.) I had the intention to write about it for some of my outlets—I know, I know, [...]
What’s in My Bag: Packing for Cool Climate
July 21, 2010 By 33 Comments
So many of you have asked for my insider experience on how to pack light and efficiently. Well I’m nothing if not service-y, so I figured, give the people what they want. And, thus, What’s in My Bag, a series of how to pack for various trips and climates, was born (right here and now). [...]
Monkeying Around in Borneo
July 18, 2010 By 9 Comments
It’s no big revelation that one thing that draws many travelers to Borneo is the chance to see orangutans in their natural habitat. While Sepilok up north is home to the bulk of the island’s orangs, SVV and I decided not to make the long, bumpy trek to the sanctuary—especially considering there was little else [...]
Photo Friday: Rasa Ria, Borneo
July 16, 2010 By 14 Comments
As it turned out, the nicest place we stayed our entire honeymoon was the first stop on our three-week Tour de Asia. Normally, you’d think it would be better to save the last, but actually after the chaos in reaching Borneo, it was just the escape we imagined. In the Kota Kinabalu area, there are [...]
Going to the Chapel: The Ceremony
July 14, 2010 By 29 Comments
This post follows Going to the Chapel: The Preparations and Photo Friday: Muir Beach. Check them out if you haven’t already! ***** In all the planning we did to ensure everyone had a bangin’ good time, we neglected one “small” facet of the wedding itself: the ceremony. In fact, up until THE DAY BEFORE, SVV [...]
How China Airlines Saved My Honeymoon
July 12, 2010 By 22 Comments
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 [...]
Photo Friday: Kota Kinabalu, Borneo
July 9, 2010 By 14 Comments
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 [...]
