I Left My Heart in San Francisco, I Left My Soles in Langkawi

Our next big trip isn’t until late October, so like any obsessed wanderluster, I find myself virtually glued to travel websites these days. I’m hoping to squeeze something in between now and then, because three months between trips is like an eternity in travel blogger years.

I was recently turned on to Traveloka Malaysia and their MAS online promotion flight finder. Ren and I have been meaning to do a comprehensive Malaysian food guide, so I’ve been making dummy bookings to different cities in Malaysia, hoping to find irresistibly cheap flights.

Going through their list of Malaysian destinations, I see Langkawi, which coincidentally was the last time we flew on Malaysia Airlines. We visited that archipelago in 2014 after reading an article listing it as one of the best islands in the world. I’m a sentimental guy so seeing that name brought back a flood of fond travel memories. There was one experience in particular that neither Ren nor I will ever forget.

We…