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Hunting for LIONS in Malaysia! [The Chinese New Year Acrobatic Lion Dance]

February 18, 2019 – 5:28 pm
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Colorful, exciting, dramatic, funny, suspenseful. What could this be? The newest Pixar film? No, it’s the traditional Lion Dance for Chinese New Year. I really, really wanted to witness an acrobatic lion dance in Malaysia in which the performers leap from high pole to high pole. But, with my talent for missing things, I kept missing lion dances.
Other travelers and tourists told me about the …

North Cross-Island Highway 004 – Foggy Paradise

February 3, 2011 – 5:03 pm
Awesome Home for the Night Near Shanballing

Thursday February 3, 2011
7:20 a.m. Cottage in the Mountains
Where to begin this latest adventure? I’m writing inside a beautiful wooden cottage high up in the mountains. I don’t really have any idea where I am because I came up here in a fog as thick as soup. It’s cold up here, and without any kind of heating, the thermometer reads 7 degrees Celsius inside the …