Category Archives: Malaysia

"Where’s the Beef?"

I would bet that most of you have heard this saying before, and depending how old you are and where you grew up, you probably remember the Wendy’s commercials featuring the little old lady that solidified the phrase’s place in American and international pop culture …

What Season is it?

When we first left Denver back in February, it was the middle of winter and as we drove through Vail, we were treated to probably the last snow storm we would see for quite some time. I was browsing a local Denver news site the other day to check in on what has been going […]

What to Eat and How Much Heat

I love being in South East Asia. For someone who likes to experiment with food, this is truly a culinary paradise. When I talk about experimenting with food, I don’t mean that you have to go to extremes, although I have managed to dine on various types of snake meat, some brain, the most foul smelling fruit on […]

Did You Know? (The Number 4)

Given that we are learning a lot about the different places and cultures we are being exposed to on the World by Road, we thought that it would only be appropriate to share some of these tidbits of information in what we hope will be a weekly blog called: Did you Know? So without further […]

Endau Photos

We have photos from Endau Rompin National Park. Click here.

Weekly Update

With in only minutes of our trucks rolling off the ship in Singapore we crossed the boarder into Malaysia. We made a b-line for Malaysia’s capital city Kuala Lumpur to meet up with our new Malaysian friend Wan. After a few days in Kuala Lumpur hanging with Wan and trying to get some much needed […]

What’s the name of that street?

For most of us when we think of driving around the world, we think of the open road where there’s no other cars and no real traffic laws. I feel thats going to be the case for 70% of the trip but the other 30% is filled with the joys of trying to navigate in […]

Update May 30th, 2007 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We are now starting a routine of regular video updates.  So here is our first one…go easy it was our first time doing this and we only did one take. 🙂 You can watch it here on our site with the link below or on Stage6 in higher quality.  http://stage6.divx.com/The-World-By-Road—Around-the-World-by-Two-Trucks

TWBR and the “Mayor” of KL

As most of you know, the ship ferrying our cars from Australia to Singapore arrived a week late, so we were forced to find something to occupy our time for a few days. We decided to cross over into Malaysia and take a taxi up to Mersing which is the departure point for Palau Tioman […]

New Photos – Malaysia, Tioman Island, and more of Indonesia

We have new photos up. The links to the galleries are below.Australian Aid School Building Project – AUS AID has committed to help build 2,000 schools in Indonesia over the course of the next 2 years.Indonesia this Morning on Metro TV – Our first international TV appearance. Tioman Island, Salang, Malaysia – This island was […]