Over Christmas Break which was 3 weeks long, I traveled to Penang, Malaysia to visit my mother.
When I arrived, my poor mum was still hiding behind a mask. This despite having had both doses or the vaccine and getting sick from Covid-19.
For several days after, she would still wear a mask around me because I arrived unmasked.
For many of us here in the US, the pandemic is over but sometimes that mindset takes a while to travel all over the world.
My trip to Penang took an entire day of traveling on the plane. I boarded Singapore Airlines SQ35 in Los Angeles Thursday evening around 9p, arrived 18 hours later.
I had a 3 hour wait in Singapore Changi International airport before catching my connection to Penang. Thankfully that flight was only 1 1/2 hours. So in total, I spend an entire day traveling and l lost a day arriving on Saturday because I crossed the International Dateline from west to east.
I did not intend to do much serious photography because I knew I had to travel very light and couldn't bring a lot of photography equipment based on the baggage allowance on board the aircraft.
But what pictures I was able to get I was very happy with my results. I met a young couple Nur Atilla and her husband Mod Syukri who turned out to be newly weds and a pretty young girl Nayli Ho.
I met some interesting characters on the streets of Penang in the Heritage area of Georgetown.
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