The Long and Winding Road

Begins now.

At the kuala lumpur airport lounge waiting to board.

All that stands between us and home are 4 flights (one 16 hours long), one 4 hour long hotel stay, one boat, and two taxi rides over the course of the next 48 hours.  

So really just two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Until next time,

Fair winds.

About Those Towers

Not much more that I know of to talk about in Kuala Lumpur than the Petronas Twin Towers. So here are a few fun facts to save you having to Google them yourself.

They stand 88 stories and 452m high (that's 1,483 feet or more than 1/4 mile )

They each weigh 300,000tons (though I'm suspicious that this may be a rounded number otherwise it was an amazing feat of advance planning to come out exactly even like that after the initial 299,999 tons)

That includes a total of 77,000 sq m of vision glass (not sure what prescription the vision glass is. I'll see tomorrow when I go inside if things outside look bigger or smaller than they really are - ha ha I crack me up!).

Meanwhile, here is tonight's view from the ground below them.



 

Kuala lumpur

Last in the list of views from our hotel rooms. ..the Petronas twin towers from our room in the Traders hotel.

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

Still Alive in Chiang Mai

My apologies if you have been wondering what became of us. Unfortunately, Michael took ill again en route to Thailand. The second night here I joined him though mercifully for just one bad night of usual traveler stuff and one achy day yesterday. But that means two full days holed up in our hotel room recuperating. Michael is still pretty uncomfortable but we managed to venture out this morning for a tuk-tuk tour of the major temples in the old city.

It turns out that Chiang Mai is a pretty westernized city with 7-Elevens, Pizza Huts, Subways, etc. Still plenty of Buddhas to be seen, of course. But the style of the temples is quite different. They are often quite ornate with lots of mirrored and colorful tile mosaics and they are clearly quite fond of elephants and serpents (of both the one headed and five headed varieties).

There's one with one head

 

Here's one with five heads

 

A foundation of elephants at this temple

 

And here are five headed serpents AND elephants

 

 

Off to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.

But getting anxious to get home.