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**saralou** · #1 7 Mar 2018

We were pretty house bound for the next 2 days with the Typhoon, but though the rain was heavy the winds were not too bad. This gave us some really needed down time . And then it was gone!

Boracay-9 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-19 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-8 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-11 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

**saralou** · #2 7 Mar 2018

What a difference a day makes as we woke up to blue skies and sunshine! We walked across the island again and then all along the coast to the north west tip.

IMG_1703 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-13 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-14 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-15 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-16 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-18 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

**saralou** · #3 7 Mar 2018

We had 10 days of sun and cloud, but great wind for kiting.

IMG_1715 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-27 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-36 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-38 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

They had quite a big Christmas celebration!

Boracay-33 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Boracay-34 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

**saralou** · #4 7 Mar 2018

We have to head back to KL and it is an all day affair and we left the hotel at 1030 am. First we are driven in a mini van to the ferry dock and we enter the secure ferry dock building and wait for our boat. The fast ferry holds about 30 people and takes about 15 min to cross the channel.

The bus stop is just outside the ferry terminal and it is a very hot and humid 45 min to wait. The air-conditioned bus ride is just about 2 hours to the Kalibo airport. Our plane is late, which is apparently the norm for this flight and is now an hour late. It is chaos at the airport as there are 3 flights to China leaving at the same time.

You have to line up to pay the tourist exit fee of 15 USD per person and then line up in a massive crowd that is not cueing, but funneling to get your fee ticket checked and then enter a roped off line to get your passport stamp. Last of course is a line for security. We had a pretty turbulent 4 hour flight and arrived back to KL and to the airport hotel just after 2130.

IMG_1726 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

**saralou** · #5 8 Mar 2018

Today we need to get the bikes sorted to fly and we got a Grab cab for the 22 km drive back to Motowerks. Here the service was done (or so we thought), except the oil filter issue. The shop guys had all the plastics off for a super clean. This left some time for us to get some lunch and run some errands. Nearly every time we got back in the car Dan made for the left “passenger” seat.

Screen Shot 2018-02-19 at 20.59.31 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Malaysia-91 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

**saralou** · #6 8 Mar 2018

We headed over to Faizal’s house for some rest before meeting the Swede downtown for some tapas and then a visit to the Whisky bar KL.

IMG_2038 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

IMG_2043 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

IMG_2042 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

After the fact we found a number of things were not done or were not done properly at Motowerk. If the small stuff was messed up then what about the valves!!! The 650 still seems to have a stutter on start, but it is too late now we will have to deal with this in NZ.

We also found out today that despite the promise of a booking on Dec 31 on MA we do not as there is no Cargo space until Feb 1. The options are 9000 Ringet per bike to send the bikes Dec 29, 4500 Ringet to take the bikes out to MAS cargo and leave them open ended and hope they get on, or find another airline. This was a very stressful day as we already have flights booked Dec 29. In the end we managed to get them on a Thai air flight from KL to Bangkok and then from there to Auckland for 3500 Ringet per bike, BUT now they have to be crated.

**saralou** · #7 8 Mar 2018

Now it is packing day for the airport. We went to BMW to pick up a metal palette for Dan’s bike (he already had a wood BMW one for the 650, but it is for a much smaller bike!) and 2 dozen tie downs. Faisal’s dad also showed up with one of their trucks for the transport. We had a lot of help from the shop guys, Faisal and Orvar to get them crated, loaded, and onto the flat bed. This meant mirrors, windscreen, and front tires off as well.

Malaysia-104 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Malaysia-105 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Malaysia-106 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr