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Hello blogosphere friends!  I am still alive and doing well in Bali.  I’m a bit pressed for time so this will be a quickie.  Had a great time in Ubud - walked through rice patties, saw traditional shows and dances every night, and met some cool dudes, including a fellow Brooklynite who is in month [...]

I went from Kuta to what really was the anti-Kuta, Lovina which is on the north shore of Bali.  Stayed in a tiny fishing village, the door to my room literally opening up onto the beach.  The first two days were a bit lonely since the place seemed to be full of older couples and families.  [...]

Don’t know if I ever mentioned it (or perhaps it’d glaringly obvious) but I can be a bit anal and high-strung.  The point of this vacation was to relax and make it up as I go along which is why I only booked accommodations for the first five nights.  But the demons are creeping up [...]

I was trying to post yesterday from home but my internet was screwy and I had to give up.
I am currently in Taiwan waiting for my flight to Bali.  Earlier the plane stopped in Anchorage so I can now say that I have been to Alaska - hehe.
Had a chance to look through the guide [...]

Over the last few years I felt like I was over New York.  I felt like there were too many people, too much traffic, too much superficiality.  Moving somewhere different, whether Seattle or Phnom Penh, seemed like the answer.  But this summer I decided to really make an effort and do things, go places, in [...]