July 5th, 2019 Today was beautiful and the water is crystal clear. This would have been a great day for diving, but we needed to return the scooter to the other side of the island, and my foot was infected. We got our stuff ready and set out on the scary road back to the…
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Day 148 – Tioman Island, Malaysia
July 4th, 2019 Today was a very chill day. Even though this is their dry season it was very stormy this morning with heavy rain. We watched the storm from the front porch while we had coffee in the morning. We pretty much just hung out in the shit-lay (chalet) until the storm passed. We…
Day 147 – Tioman Island, Malaysia
July 3rd, 2019 Since we had WIFI at our chalet, Brendan was watching some YouTube videos. I thought it was funny because YouTube was smart enough to know where we were and have local advertisements for their commercials, but dumb enough to think we would have learned another language overnight to understand those commercials… Today…
Day 146 – Tioman Island, Malaysia
July 2nd, 2019 Today we slept in before going out to explore. I had a bad headache when I woke up because I hadn’t had any caffeine in a couple days. There was an electric kettle in the room. I asked Brendan to boil some water for coffee as we had some instant coffee packs. …
Day 145 – Getting to Tioman Island, Malaysia
July 1st, 2019 Today we got up super early to catch our 6:30am bus to Mersing, Malaysia. From Mersing we will take a ferry to Tioman Island. I have read a lot about Tioman Island which is known for its beauty, snorkeling and scuba diving. A lot of comments I’ve seen say it’s a paradise…
Day 144 – Singapore
June 30th, 2019 Today we started off finding a bus ticket for tomorrow morning to take us into Malaysia as we want to head to Tioman Island. After we bought our tickets, Brendan had a really terrible lunch from a market. I guess you win some and you lose some when you buy a plate…
Day 143 – Singapore
June 29th, 2019 Today our first stop was Chinatown. I realized we actually were not in Chinatown last night, just an area that resembled it. There is a very big temple here called the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. We walked around the outside and took photos, but we did not go in. I couldn’t dress…
Day 142 – Singapore
June 28th, 2019 We had to get up in the middle of the night to pack and be downstairs at the airport shuttle by 3:30am for our early 6am flight to Singapore. Everything went smoothly and it was just over 4 hours to get there from Darwin. Singapore is supposed to have one of the…
Days 140-141- Darwin & Final Thoughts Australia
June 26th-27th, 2019 We had a very relaxed couple of days in Darwin and it was a nice way to end our journey in Australia. We didn’t do anymore ‘touring’ and just stuck around downtown. We went for a sunrise jog and watched the sunset from Mindil Beach. I liked our hostel with a pool…
Day 139 – Darwin, Australia
June 25th, 2019 Today was a travel day for us. We said goodbye to our rental car which served us well as a car and a home on Australia’s East Coast. I was so thankful we covered all those miles without any incidents. Even a door ding or a chipped window would have been crappy…