My Longkang

My wife is from Sibu, but we live in Southern Oregon in the U.S. We have a house in Sibu that my wife’s family lives in. We built it new in 1997. We go back to Sibu every few years, when we can. We both enjoy reading Sibuian and Malaysian blogs to keep in touch with all things Malaysia. As you can imagine, life in Southern Oregon is very different from Sibu. As in all towns, it some ways better and some ways not. Sibu has better food, for instance. We used to live in San Francisco, where the Asian food is fantastic.

Life on the Rogue River

We live on the Rogue River, so much of our life revolves around the river, and for me, fly fishing. I even taught fly casting once in Sibu. We live in a very rural area, kind of in the middle of nowhere. Here is a picture of the back of our house that faces the river.

During the summer, I keep a boat out back. I have a 16 foot jet boat, and also a small zodiac. I mostly use the zodiac, with a small 8 hp engine. My fly rod is in the front. I actually have about 15 or so fly rods.

This is the jet boat. It has a jet engine in the back, and can run low water and is good for rocky rivers. The Rogue has lots of rocks and runs very clear.

This is the view heading up river in the boat.

I guess that is all for now. If this is at all interesting, let me know, and I’ll write more about Southern Oregon, the Rogue River, and Fly Fishing