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We love lists

3/16/2013

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While preparing the last post I found myself making lists as I remembered things.  So just for fun - here they are.


Our Travel modes

Plane (from jumbo jets to 6 passenger props)

Train (the regular type as well as the bamboo norrie)

Bus (but no overnight sleepers)

Automobile (including but not confined to trucks, jeeps, taxis, tuk tuks & songthaews)

Boat (speed boat, ferry, house boat, longtail, canoe, row boat and rafts)

Cable Cars (the Chinese love these)

Motorcycles

Ox Cart

Rickshaw (the bike kind)

Bicycles


Medical mishaps

Ainlay - Broken wrist (Thailand) and bleeding blisters on three day hike in Myanmar which actually hurt way worse.

Leontine - Fainting spell (India)

David Evan - Altitude sickness on Tiger Leaping Gorge (China), bitten by orangutang (just bruised)

Miriam - Pitched off a bike into a gorse brush (Myanmar)

Vincent & Ming - nothing, nada, niente.


Other Mishaps 

Ming - lost passport (twice)

Vincent - lost (very expensive) camera, Iphone (mine) & various other odds and ends, including the bottom half of his zip off pants.

Ainlay - Camera on the fritz throughout Bolivia.


Animal Actitivies 

Ride - horses, donkeys, elephants, camels and yaks

Swim with - sea turtles, sea lions and penquins

Feed baby elephants

Snorkel with sharks 

Hold a stingless jellyfish

Release baby turtles into the sea

Study the same finches that inspired Darwin

Hold a female orangutang’s hand and run from a charging male one

Cuddle baby tigers, pet fully grown ones

Scoop panda poop and feed them panda cakes

Pose inside a giant turtle shell

Race dolphins on a speed boat

Be bitten by a dung beetle



Favorite memories

Floating down the river in Borneo surrounded by thousands of fireflies

Finding a mashed potato soft serve dispenser in a 7/11 convenience store in Singapore.

Sleeping on soft bedding on a sand dune under millions of stars in the Thar desert, India.

All those delicious noodle dishes that cost about $1 a bowl throughout Asia. 

Meeting the newlywed King and Queen of Bhutan and discussing Glee. 

Stepping back into the 14th century at Tibetan monasteries 

Racing with penguins or swimming with naughty sea lions in the Galapagos 

Eating fresh cocao beans, rambutans and mangosteens 

Spotting a wild tiger in India (after three days of tracking)

Eating seafood literally moments after it is caught in Borneo, India and Myanmar.

All 5 of us huddling together under 8 blankets in the early Myanmar dawn

Pushing back a greedy elephant while preparing her food

Making crazy perspective photos on the Salt Flats of Bolivia

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There are more, so many more, but that’s enough for now.
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