“I had no way of bailing the water out of the kayak, and I was nearly a kilometer from shore.”
I am a master of pushing my luck. I get bored when everything goes right, and a get a strange satisfaction from pushing my little expeditions farther and farther until something finally goes wrong.
When things go really badly, I curse myself for my stupidity and vow never to do it again.
ADVENTURES IN MALAYSIAN BORNEO
My trip had failed. I had taken two weeks off from work to visit the Malaysian province of Sabah on the island of Borneo to find and photograph the elusive and endangered Bornean pygmy elephant in the wild and, hopefully, write an adventure travel story that would make my reputation as a travel writer.
ADVENTURES IN MALAYSIAN BORNEO
I was eating breakfast in the hotel dining room and looking at my map when the hotel manager walked by.
“Where are you going?” He asked.
“Kinabatangan.” I replied.
“You’re driving a car?”
“A motorcycle.”
“Oh.” He replied and looked out the window beside my table. I turned and looked out the window. It was overcast and raining lightly.
“Maybe you should take a bus.” He suggested.
“Why?”