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 [...]
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 [...]
Parsel Tongue
June 30, 2010 By 18 Comments
“No one’s scared of snakes, are they?” our Malay guide inquired before we set out in the jungle on our trek through the nature reserve at the Shangri-La Rasa Ria. A Scottish woman’s hand shot in the air, as she exclaimed in a heavy brogue, “who isn’t?!” then realized she was the only one who [...]
Photo Friday: Taipei, Taiwan
June 25, 2010 By 9 Comments
We were supposed to end our honeymoon in Vietnam. That didn’t happen, for reasons I’ll detail on another day. Instead, we found ourselves in Taiwan’s bustling capital for the final few days of our Southeast Asia follies. Truth be told, I’d never had a burning desire to go to Taiwan. I’d connected through the airport [...]
