Road Trip Summer ‘08
Earth Camp, which happened Sun-Tuesday of last week, completely exhausted and destroyed me, and after lying on the floor drooling for the two days that followed, I took off on my one and only great road trip of the first 9 months of 2008. My little 100 cc motorscooter and I, over the course of 50 hours or so, went nearly top to nearly bottom in Terengganu State, covering both major North-South highways, 6 of the 7 district (sorry Besut, I got you on that Kota Baru trek), 3 waterfalls, Tasik Kenyir (largest man made lake in Southeast Asia), the edge of Taman Negara, and a Malay Wedding for two of our “married” ETAs (they’ve been telling everyone they are married to remain together in public here).
Although I have some qualms with the mode of transport and would not recommend an unmodified bottom-shelf 100cc bike for any significant trip, it was a lot of fun and it afforded me some resolution and reflection time, as well as the necessary decompression from camp. I’ll take this opportunity to apologize for not posting since July 20, but prep for camp and its execution really did drive me crazy and I have been neglecting all sorts of important responsibilities.
I will upload some photos of camp later, and it’s possible I’ll be able to transfer my GPS recorded route to something interesting later, but that may take more work. I’m leaving my position here on Thursday along with eight of the eleven other ETAs, and we’ll see what comes of my adventures afterwards.
That’s it for the moment. Cheers.
Posted: August 2nd, 2008 under Malaysia.