Can you even believe we’re in Colombia already! It seems like time flies faster and faster every time I write to you. Amelia and I couldn’t wait to get here when we heard about how green the country was, because that meant we would have lots of trees to play in. Besides, I just found out some of my family moved here and we get to go visit them a little later on. We first flew into a city called Cartagena, an old Spanish colonial city that still has a lot of the same buildings and even the same big stone wall around it. We even saw a pirate ship that was docked outside! Of course it wasn’t full of real pirates, but it was still really cool to see! We actually got to see it ... read more

Wylie makes it through Guatemala and El Salvador Can you believe I’ve officially been gone for over a year now? After going to Mexico and Belize, we crossed the border by taking a local bus into Guatemala. It’s definitely very different here, and lots of the women still wear their traditional Mayan dresses that their ancestors used to wear. Our first stop was in Flores which is a tiny island in the middle of a lake. We actually spent Christmas here, too. The people here light LOTS of fireworks to celebrate. At first I really liked it, but then it made it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve. Poor Amelia still isn’t quite used to all the noise you hear when you’re traveling, so I had Jessie give her a pair of ear plugs so it ... read more

OK, I’m not going to lie. I almost let out big monkey tears when Nate and Jessie told me we had to leave the beautiful beaches and hot weather to go to New Zealand, but I still knew I was going to have a good time. As soon as I landed in Auckland on the north island in New Zealand, it was pretty easy to tell that this was sure going to be a lot different than Asia. Nate and Jessie even had to let someone spray off their hiking shoes so that they didn’t bring any diseases that might hurt the plants and animals here. Once we got through the airport, the first thing we would do was get a ride to pick up our campervan with a fold down bed we were renting the ... read more

As soon as we landed in Singapore I could tell it was going to be a LOT different than in Indonesia, that’s for sure! We took an MRT, which is just like what we rode on Kuala Lumpur, just about everywhere in the city. People looked at me kind of funny though when we were riding it. I don’t think they’re used to seeing monkeys traveling with humans. We stayed at a hostel where we had an air conditioned room, for ONCE, and shared it with 8 other people. That’s how hostels work. You have to share a room with other people, but it saves you a lot of money because it’s so much cheaper than a hotel or a guesthouse when you’re in expensive cities like this. We even got free breakfast in the morning, ... read more

I sure have been busy! The last time I wrote, we were on the Peninsula of Malaysia, but we flew over to the huge island of Borneo and into a town called Kuching. The one thing I was looking forward to more than anything here was going to see some Orangutans. There’s an Orangutan sanctuary outside of Kuching called Seminggoh, where we were headed in hopes that we would get to see some. We took a bus to get there and then hiked on a path for a while until we got to where some of the staff was that works there. Can you believe we were just in time for them to feed the Orangutans? I was so excited I couldn’t stop jumping from Nate’s shoulders to Jessie’s shoulders! I felt like it was the ... read more