During this last trip to Kuala Lumpur, we elected to rent a car instead of relying on taxis to get around. Having to drive there was inevitable, so I felt there wasn't a need to put it off, plus we...
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Thanks to all who came over yesterday to cool the house down! It was a very successful endeavor, as we presented people with "parting gifts" as they left: mainly bottles of alcohol that we can't ship to Malaysia or store,...
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Today the packers/movers come to take our 5,000 lbs. that we are allowed to ship by sea. We finished sorting around 2am last night and are a little groggy this morning, but after today, this will finally seem real. We...
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Having survived the whirlwind of Security movers yesterday, we prepare today for the small (200 lb) air shipment and putting the heavy things (read: books and yard tools) into storage. Yesterday's activity lasted from 9am to 3:30pm, with most of...
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Picture this: you're driving along the interstate, following the 1400 mile planned route as defined between Google Maps and the Garmin GPS, and it's getting close to dark and you start to think that you need to eat and find...
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We made it to Jackson, Mississippi the next night and stayed in a Holiday Inn Express and had a wonderful meal at a local restaurant called Julep, where we had their signature drink and some great crawfish etoufee. We made...
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Today is our last day in the U.S. for some time--J may be back in September for a conference in Colorado, but we won't have any "home leave" until we have been in Malaysia for at least six months. We...
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It takes roughly 24 hours to get to the other side of the world. In this particular instance, it was three hours to Los Angeles, 13 hours to Taipei and 6 hours to Kuala Lumpur, with the attendant hours of...
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We stay so busy with work and preparing for our new home (i.e., furniture shopping), that the only thing we have been able to actually do for fun when we've been here before and now is simply to go out...
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This weekend, our house in Silver Spring was listed for sale. Of the many things we had to leave in Maryland, including our cat, Jill's horse, and all our friends, the house also had a special place in our hearts,...
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In our effort to continue to try every restaurant within walking distance of the Traders Hotel before we finish our relocation period, we walked down Raja Chulan past the Thai Bistro/To Dine For restaurant we had eaten at before and...
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A couple of weeks after moving here and we're feeling pretty comfortable driving around, especially now that we've obtained the automatic toll payment device (the Smart pass). We can drive to our work place and back to the hotel without...
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While I was still in the hospital, I insisted that J attend the appointment I had arranged with a local Honda dealer to be shown a Honda Civic Hybrid, considering how long it had taken me to arrange the showing...
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We maxed out our thirty days of temporary housing today, so had to check out of the Traders hotel and actually switch over to our new rental house, which we had the keys too since Friday, August 1, the day...
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I started this little project before I got sick, and hope to keep up with it while we are here. Below is an embedded Google Map showing the places that we've eaten so far in Kuala Lumpur, with some small...
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Thank goodness the sore throat has disappeared for now I can eat once again. Not that I mind soup, but a steady diet of it gets very tiring. Since we moved into the house, which is out in the 'burbs...
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We had the good fortune to be invited, along with our other work colleagues who have relocated here with us by now, to have dinner at the home of one of our Malaysian colleagues. It was wonderful to meet his...
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We spent most of Sunday afternoon shopping: visiting car dealers, obtaining an iron and an ironing board, getting lamps for the bedroom, and some grocery items that weren't perishable. At the end of the day, since we were in the...
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Since our ground shipment has still yet to arrive (we've heard rumors that it may have made it to China, but I'm not holding my breath), we decided to take the opportunity to go a couple of hours south of...
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Monday morning and we had already decided that we had gotten our fill of Melaka for this trip, although we did take a little time to try and find the Portuguese settlement on our way out. We didn't find the...
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