We've been in Singapore now for about a week and a half, and we really like this city. It's clean, probably due to the $1,000 fines for littering (about $800 USD). It's green, with tall trees lining almost every street, and beautifully landscaped greenery at every turn. It's one of the safest cities in the world, where you can walk pretty much anywhere day or night without fear of getting mugged o...
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About 90 minutes northeast from Kuala Lumpur lies the elephant sanctuary at Kuala Gandah. Many elephants have been forced from their homes due to destruction of their natural habitat for farming. Elephants become accustomed to using the same paths their whole lives, and farmers don't usually take well to having their fields trampled. Fortunately, it's now illegal to kill the elephants, but many ha...
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The most famous landmark in all of Malaysia is arguably the Petronas Towers, which was the tallest building in the world from 1998-2004 before being surpassed by the Taipei 101 skyscraper. It's still the tallest twin buildings in the world, though, and we went to see them several times while in Kuala Lumpur, and even enjoyed seeing them from our apartment window each day.
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Our time in Kuala Lumpur is coming to an end and we're heading out to Singapore in just a couple days. But I still have a lot of activities to blog about and pictures to highlight. One of these was the KL Bird Park, which boasts the largest free flight aviary in the world. From our time in Costa Rica, I thought I'd seen all the beautiful birds that existed, but I was wrong. There are some amazing ...
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There are a lot of tourist attractions in Kuala Lumpur. So many that we haven't even tried to see them all. But we chose a few highlights to enjoy during our month here. One of these was the impressiv...
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Since I announced recently that I left the Mormon church, I've received hundreds of responses from people expressing their opinions, their love and support, and their own journeys with me. The post has been viewed over 2,500 times (most of that within the first 3 days), and there's a thread about it on my Facebook timeline over 1...
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We've been in Kuala Lumpur for almost 3 weeks now and we love it! We never thought we'd say that about a big city because we don't like concrete jungles, smog, and places where people are too busy to talk to you. But we've also never been in a city like Kuala Lumpur, and it has some really great things going for it. In fact, we could probably see ourselves settling here happily for quite some time...
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We recently left Penang, Malaysia for Kuala Lumpur -- about five hours away by car -- and we're loving it here! But on the way, we took a short trip to the Cameron Highlands, Ipoh, and also visited Orang Utan Island rehabilitation center to view some of our closer primate relatives.
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Last year, I wrote a list of 77 Things I Did in 2010. Every time I read through it, I feel amazed at all we were able to accomplish in ...
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There have been some rumors floating around that we have left the Mormon church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Perhaps you've seen the pictures of Jen in sleeveless dresses, or you've noticed from my tweets the absence of any mention of church for almost a year, and you're wondering what's going on. Some people have approached us about it privately and others have silently assu...
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First Few Days in Singapore
Elephants at Kuala Gandah
Petronas Towers and Petrosains
KL Bird Park
The Batu Caves
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