Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

 

Singapore and KL have been the most expensive cities we have been in this whole trip, so me and Chelsea have taken to staying in dormitories and hostels.  The benefit?  We get to meet totally cool people who are all really nice, and hang out with them!  Right now we are staying with David (professional Chef, has a restaurant in Manhattan and his family owns a bakery chain in China, and much more), Antony (Business man who has lived and traveled all over the world.  Has been staying in this dorm for two weeks, looking for a room or apartment), Bubba (Cool dude from Mali, he currently lives in Morocco) Yuki and Hiro from Japan on a year long stint around the world, Emma from Australia and Erica from Ottawa (We met them a few towns back…) Our Kurdish friend (I cannot remember his name right now…) and some other people!  It is really fun and we really like all the people we have been hanging out with.

The downside of the dorm style is that we have nowhere to retreat to.  When we get up and get out at about eight in the morning, by two in the afternoon when it is well above a hundred degrees Fahrenheit  we really want to go hang out in our own air conditioned, private, room and take a nap, watch tv, read a book, or do whatever we want.  This is just not that possible in a dorm – I mean, it kind of is but its not the same to sit in basically public room and try to get rejuvenated as it is to have some privacy. 

Thus being so, and due to the fact that Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are some crazy big, space age cities, Chelsea and I are exhausted.  Tomorrow we re-meet up with our friend Joel (a link to his blog is on the right of this page) and explore some caves.  Then I think we are going to try to secure another Thai VISA so we can travel overland into the country and stay for a month.  If that works out, we will take the jungle train through the worlds oldest rainforest (130 million years old – it was unaffected by the multiple ice age’s that plagued most of the earth) for a few days and wind up in Thailand to meet our friend AJ and start our SCUBA certification. 

 

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