Last Day on Tioman

I'm leaving Tioman with lots of good memories and a few shades darker. Mokhtar and his wife were very helpful and friendly. I'm glad we stayed at his place. Our neighbors were also very nice. Osama and Miriam would laugh at every attempt I made at trying to be funny and would always give me a friendly comment when they passed by. The view was great, the food was great, the weather was great most of the time. Falling asleep and waking to the sound of the ocean was very nice.

Something that was a little strange on ABC that I didn't notice on Salang was that everything would close between 5 and 7 in the afternoon and all the locals would migrate toward the Jetty to make sand castles. We noticed that when we tried to get dinner the first day and couldn't.

I don't think I'd ever do the trip from KL to here again (although we have to go back the same way tomorrow), but a quick boat ride or plane will get you here from Singapore. THAT, I wouldn't mind doing.

Tomorrow, it'a a 2 hour ferry, then a 5 hour bus back to 95 degrees and stormy KL. We're going toward all the lightning storms we saw across the horizon from here ... good luck to us.

..... morning addition .....

When I left Salang, I didn't have time to wash my underwear so I just brought it to ABC and ended up using it to wipe down the floor of the chalet. Then I just hung it on the porch the whole time ... The last day, we said goodbye to our neighbors across from us, I think perhaps a middle-aged German couple. We stopped at the next shop to buy some ice cream and the German lady went running past us ... holding my underwear!! I graciously took it and then threw it away at the next trash can.