Category: Travel

  • Checking in from Bangkok, Thailand

    Flying Air Asia from Penang to Bangkok (Air Asia is a budget airline with legroom allowances appropriate only for adults 5’ 1” or smaller) we arrived in Bangkok and made our way to our AirBnB apartment on Petchubury Road via Grab Car.  We’re on the 27th foor with a nice view towards downtown. We’ve been…

  • Penang Island, Part Deux

    Full time travel is a marathon, not a sprint, so we aren’t in tourist mode all the time.  We’ve taken some time to work on “stuff back home”, such as Susie renewing her Real Estate License (we still have a couple houses to sell in Idaho), doing some work for Forsta, laundry, finances, figuring out…

  • Penang Island so far…

    Penang Island so far…

    We took the train from Kuala Lumpur to the Butterworth station, then took a short bus ride to the Ferry Terminal.  The ferry ride took about 30 minutes and the ocean breeze felt quite good.  This took longer than just getting a Grab Car and going across the causeway, but it was more fun. We…