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Malaysia Wrap-UP and New Tour Bus

Back in the states and recovering from the past few days. I have done more than a few crazy things in my life, and here is one more for the list....

Between 6:30 PM CDT (Central Daylight Time) last Monday, and 12:30 AM CDT last Friday I slept 10 hours, and only 2 of them were in a bed...10 hours of sleep in 78 hours. Within this 78 hour period I spent 35 hours in airports or planes, and 12 more driving a car...all of this while sick (cold/laryngitis).

Let me explain.

Before I left for Malaysia I bought a car (the old White Lightning just wasn't road-worthy for another year of touring). It was in Columbia, South Carolina and after putting down a deposit, I promised to come get the car after I returned to the US.

The return flight was from Malaysia to Shanghai to Atlanta to Nashville. While in Malaysia I got the bright idea to reroute from Atlanta to Columbia, SC to get my car. Since the flight into Atlanta was late arriving, we missed our connecting flight to Nashville, and I was given the opportunity I needed.

After 4 hours running around the Atlanta airport, I finally worked it out where I could get a partial refund for my Nashville flight and rent a car to go to Columbia. (I couldn't afford the extra $ to reroute an actual flight to Columbia.)

I rented a car around 10:30 PM, drove part of the trip to Columbia and checked into a hotel. I got online and mapped out the course for the next day: to the bank, to the car dealer, to an independent mechanic to check out the car, back to the dealer, to the airport in Columbia to drop off the rental car, and then 8 hours back to Nashville. I went to sleep in the hotel but only got a little over two hours before I woke up. Malaysia is 13 hours ahead of Central Time and so my body clock was completely backwards. I laid in bed a couple of more hours before deciding it was useless and that I should just rise to meet the busy Thursday before me.

All went as planned and I got back into Nashville at midnight that night, took a sleeping pill to keep me from waking up at 3 AM again, and ended up sleeping until 3:30 Friday afternoon. I am still pretty sick, as expected after such a crazy trip, but it is nice to be home and it was worth it to not have to drive to Columbia this weekend. Oh, and I did "The Shack" on audiobook Thursday...might blog on that later...or not.

As for this blog, below is a little footage from Malaysia. I realized while editing it that I had been too busy in Malaysia to film anything other than when I was stuck in a car or the 2 times I did some sightseeing. Might be boring, but I threw it up anyway....gave me a chance to play with some video editing.

In the video you will see the Batu Caves (Hindu Temple) and the Petronas Towers (world's tallest buildings 1998-2004). It is a good representation of the contrast between the ancient and the modern in Malaysia. Oh, and that's David my traveling companion in the video.

Also below is a photo of my new tour bus. The guys here at the house are cooking up a name for it....feel free to leave suggestions.