Thursday, February 2, 2012

Back to Borneo...

While I write this we are both separately tidying up loose ends in preparation for our winter vacation - we have a hefty chunk off for Chinese New Years (5 weeks, all told) and have spent the first three doggedly working. Field work, class prep, studying...all coming to a conclusion this weekend. The next 12 days will be our payment...

We intend to visit some new places, and despite this being our third trip to Borneo there are endless places yet explored (by us!). Hiking, birds and night walks through the forest will be our fodder for enjoyment...and we will stock up on Sabah tea and Tenom coffee!

So, as the whirlwind of classes and field work that will hit us upon our return will probably make updating here a tertiary priority at best for a while, we say good-bye... for a while. If we are not back in a month, call the authorities and tell them to scan the coastal forests of Borneo for two foreigners who are walking the trails in barefeet with mud soaked and leech covered clothing, mumbling random bird calls and demanding to the listening trees that AirAsia changes our return flight to any time after we find one last bird.....