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Penang Island, North West Malaysia Penang Island, often referred to as the ‘Pearl of the Orient’, lies just off the north east coast of peninsular Malaysia. It’s about a 3-hour drive north of Kuala...

Jungle, wildlife, beach and world music on Borneo Two of Malaysia’s 13 states – Sarawak and Sabah – are located on the island of Borneo. As it’s a mere 2 hours by plane from...

Heading over to the east coast offers a chance to cross the central ridge of mountains that run down Peninsula Malaysia and are still covered in original South East Asian jungle – plenty of...

The Cameron Highlands are part of the central ridge of mountains running down Pensinsula Malaysia. They were opened up up by the British as a ‘Hill Station’ i.e. a place where officials could go...

Malaysia borders the South China sea, famed for its coral reef islands. On a recent visit to the northern east coast, just below the Thai border, we spent a few blissful days on the...

Northern Vietnam, Hanoi and Halong Bay Being only 3+ hours flight from Vietnam, we ‘popped over’ for a short visit to check out Hanoi and the famed (and popular) Halong Bay. Still a soft...

While living in Japan we were lucky to hook up with a fellow hiker whose boyfriend ran trekking trips in Nepal. He was able to get a permit to visit the Rolwaling valley region...

We were both living independently in Paris when we met in 1990. Rodger, after having finished his PhD, had taken a job with a french startup – Chorus Systemes – based just outside Paris....

We moved to Oregon in ’91 for our first taste of America:-) Rodger was joining Chorus’s new office in Portland and Doris had decided to do a Masters in Linguistics at Portland State. After...