Borneo Bound

Dates Traveled: November-December 2007
Malaysia (State of Sabah) - Kota Kinabalu (KK)
We arrived in Kota Kinabalu (KK) around midnight, only to find that the airport transfer we’d arranged with the hostel was nowhere to be found. We eventually just grabbed a cab to the hostel, where we crashed long and hard. It had been a long […]

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Penis Gourds in Papua

Dates Traveled: October-November 2007
Singapore
I left the vessel, and Rio, on October 24th for the loooong trip to Singapore. By the time my head hit the pillow in Singapore I’d been awake for over 60 hours, though only 42 of those were spent on flights or in the Rio, Sao Paulo, Washington DC, and Tokyo airports. […]

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Singapore

Dates Traveled: July 2002
(I’d also worked/traveled here in April-June 1999, but that trip is without details)
I took a flight from Delhi to Bangkok and then directly on to Singapore - basically from filth to sterile in two short flights. The cleanliness of Singapore was blinding! Singapore was simply a short 4-day resupply stop where I […]

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