It’s been nine amazing months of travel. In the last month we took a road trip around Bali on a scooter, thought seriously about just staying on Nusa Lembongan, failed to obtain our India visa in Bangkok and rekindled our love…
Balinese Road Trip Adventures (pt. 2)
After contending with our first (and so far sole… fingers crossed) roadtrip mishap, we left Kintamani and headed for Pura Besakih, Bali’s Mother Temple. It’s Bali’s largest and most important Hindu temple, and is actually a sprawling complex of buildings.…
Seeing Bali by Scooter (pt. 1)
August 31 was a busy day. We woke up before dawn in Pulau Weh and then took a taxi across the island, a ferry to Banda Aceh, another taxi to the airport, a flight to Kuala Lumpur, another flight to…
The Bules Take on Pulau Weh
We always intended to go to Indonesia on this trip. It’s a fantasy location– more than 13,000 balmy islands offering everything: jungles, cities, resort destinations, tiny barely inhabited islands that take days to get to, and so on. Like most travelers,…
Beautiful Borneo
On August 13th we said goodbye to Penang and set out for Malaysian Borneo. Borneo is similar to the Galapagos insofar as it’s beautiful, full of crazy wildlife, has some of the best scuba diving in the world, and… it’s relatively…