January 11, 2026

Below are more of Janette Emerich's fantastic drone photo's that showcase these gorgeous islands. I love Janette's passion for travel and documenting it - she gave a great talk on her RV adventures across Panamerica - I will truly miss her when she goes back to them at the end of February. You can follow her on Facebook if you want to see more.

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Thirteen of us hired a boat and captain to take us partway around the island and anchor in the cove, at the entry to the Hakaui Valley. There is a small village there, that we walk through, bought some mangoes & bananas from the lady below, right off her  trees and continues to hike into the depths of the valley. As Bob Meyer said in his post, at any time you felt like a prehistoric animal could go dashing by. Time does appear to have stood still here, except I heard Reggae music coming from one cottage and saw the solar panel operated Phone Booth below. The fruit lady's home was so well manicured, not a leaf was even lying anywhere on her immaculate kept pathways. We also got fresh squeezed pineapple juice from her and used her restroom, which was an outer building, complete with parer and running water, just no doors on the stales - but wait to you see the view!

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Another one of our residents posted this find - thought I would share too!

KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, MALAYSIA

By Pat Patrick • May 25, 2026
We only had about 8 hours of port time in KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia today, due to Port operations. I went out with Delia to see one of the most notable buildings in town, the floating mosque or Masjid Bandaraya. Our GRAB driver actually took our picture when we asked him to wait for us, and then take us to the mall afterwards.

SANTUBONG RIVER, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA

By Pat Patrick • May 23, 2026
MALAYSIA , on BORNEO ISLAND made palm seed oil their biggest export back in 1966 and was the top global exporter until 2008, when Indonesia surpassed them. Sadly, the resulting tropical deforestation has created major habitat losses and population declines for the Borneon Orangutans, Pygmy Elephants and Proboscis Monkeys . Many of us on the ship took tours to see these amazing creatures and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos too.

KUCHING, MALAYSIA - BORNEO ISLAND

By Pat Patrick • May 22, 2026
BORNEO ISLAND is a fascinating place, that I had honestly only heard of from the reality tv show Survivor. I'm still learning so much, but I had no idea it is the largest island in Asia and 3rd largest island in the World! It is a mini continent, with 3 different Countries sharing the island's land mass ( Indonesia 73%, Malaysia 26% and Brunei 1% ). We are only going to 2 ports in Malaysia now, one in each of the states of Sarawak and Sabah . Below is a video that highlights and explains thing well.