Here are my album pages for the day. Please excuse the glare. If I have time tomorrow, I will see if I can't take a better picture.
Supplies: Patterned Paper (DCWV Taj Mahal), ink (Memories), pen for writing on photos (Slickers)
I decided to try writing on my photos tonight because I got some new Slickers pens that claim they are good for that purpose. I didn't like the results. The pen nib was too thick. Ideally I would like a fine tipped white marker to write on the photos, but I cannot find one. Let me know if you have a white pen you use to write on your photos.
These are photos we took from the train on the way from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Children playing so close to the tracks and women selling delicious meals at each station. There literally is not a bad meal in Thailand. That is, if you like Thai food!
From our corresponding daily journal:
(written by Margie) It was pretty comfortable, though with the windows open. (Referring to the high temperatures.) The local people who were sitting around us seemed nice. At first we couldn't find our seats because we didn't know where the seat numbers were. It turned out they were on the bakc of each seat. We had gotten the conductor to ask and flet a little silly once we realized that. It just goes to show you how we expect everything to be like it is at home. We met a nice English guy traveling with his girlfriend - they were going to one of the islands. A woman came aong and asked us what we wanted for dinner - we ordered from a photocopy menu printed in English & Thai. At 7:00 pm she brought us our dinner. It was just as good as the other food we had in Thailand. The ride was pretty good - the scenery was really nice - lots of jungle and shanty-like towns. The only drawback of the train was that our clothes got filthy from the open windows.
July 10, 1997 - Thursday
(written by Paul) The night and early morning on the train was strange the windows were all open but it was pitch black outside so we couldn't see out. It felt like we were on some kind of Universal Studios tour that takes you through a dark tunnel, yet this tunnel lasted 10 hours. We go to the border at about 8:00 am. We got off the train to go through immigration. Pretty smooth except there were many signs telling us we would receive the deaht penalty if we took drugs into Malaysia. Malaysia is a Muslim country and is very tough on drugs but you can drink in most places. There are many Chinese and Indians in Malaysia so the Muslims are very tolerant. We got back on the train and headed to Butterworth we changed trains in Butterworth - Malaysia trains are much nicer. Second class was air-conditioned and had videos, so the 6 hour trip Kuala Lumpu (KL) was quite comfortable. We arrived in KL at 8:00 pm. Our 29 hour journey from Bangkok was over and now a new city. We had originally planned to work in KL but still were not sure. We checked our Lonely Planet copied pages. We tried the Coliseum - full; another homestay had the wrong number. Finally we called the Traveler's Moon Lodge, an old standby according to the LP. They had space, so we took a taxi to the guest house. In contrast to Thailand the fees are fixed from the train station - our first example of ultra-organized (compared to Thailand) Malaysia. Travelers Moon was a bit dirty and all-in-all not worth the 8 ringhits a night for a dorm bed. We had a great Chinese meal around the corner that night.
Malaysia had great Indian and Chinese food. The place had a great chicken in black bean sauce - a bit pricey though 27 ring.
Here's a picture of the filler pages with the corresponding daily journal pages.
More pages tomorrow!
Recent Comments