Alan Irwin’s Blog

Well, that’s how Nina described herself.
We’ve only seen, let alone met, one American in Malaysian Borneo. But she is more interesting than a few dozen backpackers combined.
Nina is about our age and hails from San Francisco. She works as a freelance, um, development mercenary, that is, she works as a contractor for large development organizations [...]

Alan (Dry, instructional component):
We have been in Kuching, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. [CORRECTED 9 Nov] In 1957, the Malay peninsula formed a federation made up of newly independent colonies. In 1963, Sarawak and Sabah (also former English colonies) joined Malaya, along with Singapore, to create the modern country [...]

Dear Diary,
I invaded Alan’s blog today. He insists a blog is not a diary although he writes his activities and thoughts in it almost every day. He’ll admit to “journaling” but just barely. When did one of the favorite activities of 10-year old girls and women in support groups get co-opted by techno dudes…?
Enough blog [...]

We’re here. Unfortunately, Cox cable (or at least the Webmail access to Cox) has been unreliable. We can occasionally see our email, but it’s been hit or miss.
We arrived safe and sound, and yesterday we were exploring the sights in Little India and Chinatown. Harriet is a shopping demon. We both have been grazing like [...]