When we were offered the chance to make a side trip to Penang, Melaysia on the way home the Koesters, Mathises, and VanCampens jumped at it. A once in a lifetime opportunity, probably, to spend two nights in the Maui of Malaysia.
Penang is an island off the northwest coast of this Asian country, an island about 23 miles long from north to south, and an island filled with tourist accomodations.
At our own expense, we three couples flew the 50 minutes north from Kuala to land on this island paradise. It’s a paradise, that is, if you don’t mind heat and humidity. We dind’t mind - for the short time we were there. But, I wouldn’t want to experience that kind of moisture in the air all of the time!
But those two factors didn’t keep us from renting some 125cc motor bikes to tour a bit of the island, nor from trying parasailing (really inexpensive here), nor from riding the “banana boat” (an inflated and large banana-type of craft pulled at a fast pace behind a speedboat. We had a great R&R time here, sort of a buffer and preparation for the huge changes in time we are about to experience on the flight home. You are 13 hours behind us. We will arrive in LA at 5:30 this evening, about 3 1/2 hours after we take off from Taipei!
It’s Palm Sunday here, and we are athe the airport in the middle of the huge palm oil plantations on this part of Malaysia. By the time we leave at 3:30 p.m. you folks still be in bed very early on the same day. Have a great Palm Sunday where ever you are.
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