About Adventures of a GoodMan
My name is Greg Goodman, and this is the magazine of my life.
. . . .Through it, I invite you to join me on a virtual photographic trip around the world, complimented by stories and multimedia from the road.
Think of the site as my answer to the age-old question: I traveled; now what?
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Standing a Quarter Mile Above the Ground in Malaysia’s Petronas Towers
Photography, storytelling and observations from below and inside Malaysia’s Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur from my backpacking adventure across SouthEast Asia.
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Malaysia and Singapore: Two Countries that Might As Well Be One
First Malaysia and Singapore were on our our itinerary, then due to time constraints we cut them out. However, as the cheapest way to get from Bali back to mainland Southeast Asia was through Kuala Lumpur, we decided to give it a go. Our experience began at 1am when our …
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Chinatown, The Entrapment Towers and the Harlem Globetrotters in Kuala Lumpur
After leaving the airport and finding a hostel in the Chinatown area of Kuala Lumpur, we spent our first day wandering the city and seeing our first movie in the theaters since leaving the USA: Star Trek, which was awesome! Later that night we spent literally hours taking the subway …
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Food and Culture in Malaysia
Malaysia seems to be more of a mix of other cultures than a country with its own. The locals are a collection of Indians, Malaysians, Indonesians and Chinese. This leads to many different religions and a very segmented population: especially in Kuala Lumpur. True, we didn’t spend too much time …
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Melaka: Four Days in a Town that Needs One
Poor Carrie! First she gets sick in Bali and goes a little stir crazy trying to recover. Then, no sooner than she starts to feel better I get a case of the belly and have to hole myself up for a few days. This is how we came to Melaka: …
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Singapore: A Country in a City
Singapore is a country unlike any other I’ve ever visited, as it is literally just a city. It’s like if Brooklyn were its own country. You can drive from one side to the other in less than an hour and public transportation will take you anywhere you need to go. …
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A Thirteen Hour Whirlwind in Singapore
Singapore is the most expensive place in Southeast Asia. Plain and simple. Food is nearly at US prices as is transportation, goods, services and hotels. Not wanting to pay nearly $50 a night for a hotel we arranged to couchsurf with Daniel: an expat from the Netherlands who had a …
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Sleep Tight. Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite.
They say be careful what you wish for. Carrie lived in Nicaragua for 27 months. I was there for seven. We’ve since traveled in Central America, Canada, Europe, India, Sri Lanka and a good portion of Southeast Asia. As of our bus ride out of Singapore, neither of us had …
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Freezing in the Cameron Highlands and Breaking the World's Third Largest Flower
After escaping bed bugs, we finally finished our journey to the Cameron Highlands, which feature rainforests and mountains to hike through. The town is basically one long street filled with restaurants, convenience stores, guest houses and tour operators. Best of all, the climate was coooool! We checked into a hostel …
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Finding Nemo on the Untouched Perhentian Islands
What better reason to leave the cool weather of the Highlands than for some scuba diving and time on a tropical island. The Perhentians are a pair of relatively untouched islands, the smaller of which is Long Beach where we stayed. It reminded Carrie and I of the Corn Islands …
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Malaysia and Singapore: Two Countries that Might As Well Be One – This and That
Malaysia I saw a Muslim woman snorkeling with a full burka on We saw the final episode of American Idol in a hotel room in Melaka. This marks the third final I’ve ever seen…once in Panama, once traveling back from Nicaragua in 2007 and now this one. I have no …
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Malaysia and Singapore: Two Countries that Might As Well Be One – Photos and Videos
Photos Links: Malaysia Singapore Video Links: The Harlem Globetrotters in Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Chinatown Kitchen scene at a street restaurant Kuala Lumpur – Views of the downtown from a subway train Getting to the Perhentian Islands by boat Scuba Diving along the bottom of the Perhentian Islands with snappers, …
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- Standing a Quarter Mile Above the Ground in Malaysia’s Petronas Towers
- Malaysia and Singapore: Two Countries that Might As Well Be One
- Chinatown, The Entrapment Towers and the Harlem Globetrotters in Kuala Lumpur
- Food and Culture in Malaysia
- Melaka: Four Days in a Town that Needs One
- Sleep Tight. Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite.
- Freezing in the Cameron Highlands and Breaking the World's Third Largest Flower
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