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November 5th 2008

Published: November 7th 2008

Greetings - We left Indonesia late Tuesday for the surprisingly metropolitan city of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo, arriving in time to revel in the McCain/Palin beat-down as it unfolded on CNN from our room overlooking the South China Sea. Our arrival in Malaysia followed a week spent taking in the sites of Java, Indonesia's most heavily populated island at five times the density of Great ... Read Full Entry

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On the Loose

Jub and Anna

After both spending four years at law jobs in the States, we decided to pick up and travel around the world last October in search of adventure and whatever else comes our way. We plan to be abroad until summer of 2009. If you want to subscribe to this blog, you can click on the blue "Subscribe" button below, and you'll get an email when we post something new. We've decided to divide the labor on this blog. Eric (Jub) will do most of the writing and Anna will handle the pictures and editing. Please drop us a line if you have ideas or tips for us as we travel along. We love hearing fro... full info

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On the street

Malang

Central market, Malang

Posing

This guy was eager for me to take his picture -- this was a trend on Java.

Me, contemplating how lucky I am

You can kind of make out the volcano spewing ash in the background.

Such a peaceful image

For scale (Jub is the little blue spot)

Street art, Yogyakarta

Sultan's Palace, Yogya

Me and two (relatively) tiny guards

Sultan's palace

Ceiling detail

Sultan's palace

Getting ready for Prince Charles

Bunnys for sale

and snakes, and monkeys, and lizards ... at the Yogya bird market

Jub: A Gentle Giant

Really these kids wanted our picture. We decided to turn the tides

Guard; Sultan's Palace

Yogyakarta

OBAMA!!

The one prerequisite we had for a KK hotel was CNN. November 4 will inevitably go down as one of the happiest days on the trip.

7th November 2008

Kevin
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Wow!
Fantastic commentary and photos. Once again you have made my day. Please keep the adventures coming. It's raining like crazy in Bellevue. Ciao

10th November 2008

Auntie Lou
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I want to grow up and be you!
Hey, you two, it may not get any better than that and we too celebrated our new hope and change with Barack's win. happy trails to you both and hugs all round. Louise and Jack

26th November 2008

80R6
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awesomeness
The photos in this entry are amazing, the stories are even better. Your bus ride story reminds me of our trip to thailand.

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