Well, we have been traveling up the Batang Rejang river all day and are hungry and thirsty for a cold beer so this will be a quickie. We left Kuching after an awesome evening of walking the waterfront and eating ice cream for a quarter a cone ... oh, and of course, chocolate cake and peanut butter cheesecake at a knockoff Starbucks. We went on two boats today, the first getting us across a small portion of the South China Sea to Sibu, and the second taking us a long way upriver where there is an incredible amount of logging industry and hundreds of traditional longhouses. We have just recently arrived in Kapit, a small fishing, logging, and trading city of approximately 8,000 people. Joyce didn't fair too well at the beginning of our journey, but
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