Category: Planet Doug Journal – 2026

I recently had a great time at the 41st Annual Dragon Boat Races in Melaka, Malaysia. They took place over a weekend on Saturday, June 27th and Sunday, June 28th. The 8-kilometer endurance races took place on Saturday. And then the 200-meter sprints and the awards ceremony took place on…

Thursday, July 2, 20268:50 a.m. Room A1 Makhota Vibe InnMelaka, Malaysia I’m not sure what I’m going to write about this morning. There were no big adventures yesterday or the day before or even the day before that. I’ve just been dealing with YouTube stuff, such as the re-edit of…

YouTube has added a new feature to how “creators” can interact with comments. After each comment, there is a three-dot menu, and when I click on those three dots now, I get the menu that you see above. The new feature in the menu is the second one: “Find similar…

Tuesday, June 30, 20267:52 a.m. Room A1 Makhota Vibe InnMelaka, Malaysia I’ve been talking a bit about the weather recently, and how it is changing. I saw it again last night and this morning. It was an unusual night of heavy rain. But, as often happens, it stopped before the…

Yesterday, I posted a new version of my “Ship Graveyard” video. And then I set the original video to “Unlisted”. That means the original video is still on YouTube, but it isn’t visible to public searches. You can only view it with a direct link. When you go to my…

Monday, June 29th, 20267:55 a.m. Room A1, Makhota Vibe InnMelaka, Malaysia I just posted my journal entry from last Friday. In that entry, I was writing mainly about how the weather has been changing, and I was wondering what that meant for potentially cycling up the east coast of Malaysia…

Friday, June 26, 20268:27 a.m. Room A1 Makhota Vibe InnMelaka, Malaysia I can definitely feel the seasonal change out there. I haven’t kept track of the actual months for this, but at least on the west coast of Malaysia, we are definitely entering the rainy season or monsoon season or…

VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Welcome back to Planet Doug! After touring the Hang Tuah Museum in Melaka, Malaysia, I jump on my bike for what I hoped would be a beautiful, scenic ride back to my hotel — following rivers and the Strait of Malacca along quiet back roads instead of crazy…

Thursday, June 25, 20268:45 a.m. Room A1 Makhota Vibe InnMelaka, Malaysia Well, a decision was made. On impulse. I booked this room at the Makhota Vibe Inn for three more nights so that I can stay here in Melaka at least through the weekend. I did that because I want…

Wednesday, June 24, 20268:20 a.m. Room A1 Makhota Vibe InnMelaka, Malaysia My time in Melaka continues. An odd thing is that one of the reasons I’ve stayed here so long is that the hotel prices go down once the weekday starts. And then when I see those lower prices, I…