Nomadic Life – So what’s it like?
As a someone who never traveled as a kid, I mean, I’d never let my home state before flying away to college at 17 years old. I never really thought much about travel but I was always fascinated by the incredible things that i’d seen in the encyclopedia.
On My Kiwi Bookshelf
Everywhere we went in New Zealand, and we went all over the place, there were bookshelves galore. Almost every hotel and cabin we stopped at had piles of books for guests to read, and we spotted quite a few take a book/leave a book boxes and shelves along the streets of the small villages we passed through on our drives.
New Zealand – Part 2
Lake Hāwea/Wānaka, West Coast, Tongariro National Park.
We’re at the beginning of week 4, our last week here in NZ. I’m sitting at the dinner table of our *fantastic* airbnb here on the north island in a little beach town called Kūaotunu on the Pacific Ocean.
New Zealand Post … Office
New Zealand seems to have a very streamlined postal system in place. I don’t know if it has operated this way forever, or if it is the result of cutbacks away from a system more like I’ve encountered in the U.S. and everywhere else so far, but I have yet to see a dedicated post office here.
First Week in New Zealand
So everything anyone has told you about New Zealand, it’s all of that and so much more.
Church in Malaysia
In order to get to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, you need to make your way to Kuala Lumpur’s “Little India” neighborhood, driving past chai wallas and restaurants advertising tandoori chicken.
Our Magical Malaysian Medical Visit
When we were researching and preparing to begin our slow-travel lifestyle, we read about a lot of world travellers who like to have their annual health screenings done overseas. A number of cities around the world offer this service, and the one that kept coming up was a hospital here in Kuala Lumpur called Prince Court Medical Centre.
On My Malaysian Bookshelf
Unlike Thailand and Vietnam, I had zero expectations of Malaysia. I wasn’t familiar with the cuisine, I hadn’t seen it portrayed in tv or movies, it never came up in history or art classes. When we arrived in Kuala Lumper, though, I was immediately impressed by this large multicultural city.
Kuala Lumpur, Initial Impressions
Kuala Lumpur is amazing. No other place we’ve visited in Southeast Asia feels like KL does. The city itself is huge with 2.1M residents in the city proper with something like 8M in the metro area. The metropolitan area is sprawled out in a way that would feel extremely familiar to anyone who’s been to one of the big cities in the US.