Post 1: Prologue

The long awaited writings… (please note: the next 9 or so entries are briefer, and less amusing, than they could be, as I’m trying to play catchup)

Hi everyone! Apologies of a sort for the delay in writing this – I’ve been putting it off but have, in my defense, been remarkably busy (it seems like there are never enough hours in the day these days)…

So, to begin, then. Our great adventure started with a 15 hour stopover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Not much to be said, other than that it is green, muggy, and brilliantly cool. It really does feel like a city just barely managing to keep the jungle at bay. We walked for about 12 hours solidly, in footwear not designed for the purpose, and as a result injured ourselves quite badly. I’d also had no sleep, so was somewhat the worse for wear…
We got a couple of extra hours out of our poor damaged selves by going for reflexology foot rubs, with Simon’s guy telling him that he ate his food too quickly and drank too much :P
Anyway, we survived our walkabout, and got back on the plane, headed for Auckland, New Zealand.

[intermission during which I failed to sleep at all, meaning that by the end of it all, she had endured 50-some hours with one hour of broken snoozing. Quite cool, actually.]