Pajareo sin fronteras

My 2019/2020 holiday season was a busy one- a trip through  California , Christmas in Oregon, then on to the Philippines with a quick layover in  Hong Kong . The Philippines wasn't my final destination, however; I spent a few days there with Nikki, then we immediately jetted off once more, this time to Malaysia for a New Year's trip through Sabah, in northeastern Borneo. It was exhausting, but since I have no idea when I'll ever be able to travel abroad again I have zero regrets. Nikki and I had visited Sabah once before, in 2017, and had a fun time as beginner birders. We figured we might as well visit once again, as it's a cheap flight from Manila and we had a decent idea of what to expect there.  The only problem with getting to Sabah is that the flights run on the worst possible schedules. We arrived in Kota Kinabalu at 2 in the morning on December 30 on the daily Cebu Pacific flight and went directly to our AirBnb, a room in the house of a nice family in a qui

After a  fun trip to California  and a nice (albeit mostly birdless) Christmas with my parents and sister in Oregon, the remainder of my 2019 and the first part of 2020 was spent in Asia. Traveling from Washington DC to California to Oregon to the Philippines to Malaysia to the Philippines and back to DC seemed like a bit of a stretch for just my holiday break, but now sitting in quarantine with the prospects of any kind of travel in the near future growing ever dimmer, it's a decision I'm very glad I made. If nothing else it gives me things to reminisce on while trying to  make the most of  quarantine in Michigan.  Of course, as the title suggests I had stops along the way- the cheapest flight to the Philippines conveniently happened to include a 10-hour morning layover in Hong Kong. HK is one of my favorite cities in the world, and it's still a great place to visit despite the best intentions of some particular authoritarian world leaders. I didn't have much time