I ran across this actual photo recently while going through boxes of more photos. The pictures we took on our trip home from Ethiopia in 1978 were slides so where did this actual photo come from? It must have been taken by the wife of the man standing in the center and she remembered to mail it to us. That is practically unheard of.
In this photo we were waiting on a riverbank in Kuala Tembling, Malaysia, for a wooden boat to take us to the Taman Negara National Park.
When we began this trip in 1976 I sewed us each a Frostline Kit canvas backpack/suitcase.
Those served us well for nearly 3 years of very rough travel but by the time we hit Afghanistan they were pretty torn up. We found the lovely leather suitcases we have in the photo above in the Kabul market. Pack light was our motto; that was what we carried for our 3-year trip around the globe.
As for the Park, we took a 3 and 1/2 hour riverboat up to a small hotel. Here and here are my original journal entries of this part of the trip, including photos of the riverboat and swimming and swinging on vines in the jungle.
