Malaysia Bound

Our initial plan was to head out the day after the party because island living can get a bit pricey even in Thailand. However, we were in no condition to get our act together so we ended up spending another day there. In fact, we ended up spending 2 more nights because of some situations that came up with scheduling ferries. There is no need to go into much detail about those days because they were very laid back and not a lot was done. The major event was saying goodbye to our Brazilian and French friends who had become honorary members of our pack. They will certainly be missed but I'm sure we will meet plenty of more people along the way.

We finally got our act together and got off the island and began the long journey to Malaysia. At this point it was only Will, Jesus and me because Tom and Merrill had to go to the mainland the previous day to get X-rays done on Tom's twisted ankle (ended up fine). The trip to Malaysia was about a 48 hour adventure combining many different forms of transportation. We finally arrived in Kuala Lumpur at about 4:30 AM and we realized we had no clue where we should go or what area we wanted to stay in. Wondering around KL at that hour with all of our bags trying to find a cheap place to stay in China town was a very interesting experience to say the least. We finally found a place that was cheap and not crawling with cockroaches and rats (which many of the places we looked at were). However, I'm pretty sure it doubled as a brothel considering you could rent rooms by the hour and we saw many "couples" doing just that. Exhausted from our two days of travel we decided to get some sleep before getting up and trying to reconnect with
Tom and Merrill who would be arriving the same day.

-RBC