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Imperial estimates at the hotel pool
Olympic gold medalist and former Subway spokesman Michael Phelps once told me the “secret” to surviving the flight back from Asia: hit the pool, then…
Nov 27, 2022
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Homeward bound: 1 horse, 2 boats, 2 planes, too many cars, and a humbling farewell
I’m writing this dispatch from the Manila airport. If Dante’s ghost ever gets around to doing a sequel to The Divine Comedy, I think this place is in…
Nov 21, 2022
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Gili Air is chill AF and the snorkeling rules
After our escape from the mischievous monkeys of Ubud, we needed to chill the fuck out. Thankfully, the final leg of our journey takes us to an island…
Nov 18, 2022
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Escape from monkey mountain
After more than a week in Ubud, we thought we had the local monkeys figured out. We did some “research” while visiting Ubud’s Monkey Forrest. We chatted…
Nov 16, 2022
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Now we're cooking!
As far as I know, there aren’t any Balinese restaurants in Los Angeles. But my knowledge in this area is limited. So maybe I’m totally wrong about that…
Nov 14, 2022
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Balinese FAQ
I travel to learn, but the farther I go from home, the more likely I am to find myself in the role of a teacher. In Bali, that cultural exchange is…
Nov 13, 2022
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Temples, a wedding, a royal cremation, plus dessert
Before we left for Bali, I bought an audiobook called History of Bali: A Captivating Guide to Balinese History and the Impact This Island Has Had on the…
Nov 12, 2022
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Monkey business in bat country
In Bali, it’s safe to assume that where there’s a forrest, there are monkeys. We learned this as soon as we arrived in Ubud, a mountain town surrounded…
Nov 10, 2022
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War and peace at the bottom of the sea
I read somewhere that anticipation helps us derive greater joy from our vacations. I don’t know if that’s true, or if it’s just clickbait some travel…
Nov 9, 2022
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Actually, it's the journey and the destination
It’s about nineteen miles from Seminyak to Ubud, as the crow flies. But we took a car, and cars in Bali use narrow, winding roads that are clogged with…
Nov 8, 2022
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Who wants to be a Balinese millionaire?
In Bali, it’s easy to feel like a million bucks. Actually, it’s more like a million rupiah, which is the local currency. At the moment, one U.S. dollar…
Nov 7, 2022
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We came here to leave it all behind
The journey took longer than we planned, but we finally made it to Bali. From a purely logistical standpoint, the credit (and the blame) goes to…
Nov 5, 2022
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