Heat, Humidity, and Highways

Monday, Nov 5, 1012
Taman Nusa Perintis II Malaysia

Cycled out of Johor Bahru today with great plans of going about 60 km to the coastal town of Pontian...but alas, plans do change. It was a major challenge getting across this city because any road the actually goes some place is a highway...a 6 lane highway...with many entrance and exit lanes...creating very dangerous biking decisions.

Crazy, crazy, hazy day. "Do you need sunscreen?" No...the sun's not even out! Big mistake. Ouch! I am so burned!!!

Our GPS won't load the SE Asia maps. My iPhone doesn't really load the Maps screen nor locate us. Sylvia has an Nexus 7 which does find us, but she forgot to charge it last night so we didn't want to turn it on too often. We decided to get a SIM card in my old iPhone so that we would have 3G capabilities. Good idea. Came in terribly handy already today helping us figure out where we were. But when the road went beyond what was showing on the map and we were on a highway that wasn't on any maps yet, that was a bit creepy. But it was heading west and the traffic was light so we just kept going. And it worked out pretty well. We're not lost. We're in rural Malaysia, for sure! And the phone found us a hotel...yippee!

Today's quote by a Malaysian man where we stopped to have lunch: "Obama's already won!"

Lots of laughs, lots of fun, lots of sun, and plenty of fatigue. Early to bed at 8:30 pm...and had to work to stay up this late.


BagLady

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