This is a story about state-of-the-art ship building, recycling, aquaculture, government's attempts to save a fragile ecology, and sustaining tourism: the last functioning economic flow in Indonesia. It started when I saw a curious dingy.One morning as I walked around an empty beach on the...
It's unavoidable. Sooner or later tourists in Bali turn their thoughts to money. My suggestion is, if you have any vacation time saved up, and only a little dough in the bank, you saddle up and get to Indonesia right now. Sure you'll be taking...
My luck came in good today. Last night I met a FAST company United States Marine Seargent named Kerry at the local beach bar. He was one of 3000 shore leave Marines and Navy that arrived here in Kuta last night. They have been circling...
How often are you invited to a funeral? I'd been offered just about everything in Kuta in the ten days since I got here, but transport to a cremation seemed too weird to pass up. So a group of five of us hopped in a...