1/18/99: Ruth is feeling much better today, so we went and surprised mom and dad… They weren’t expecting us for another two weeks, so we decided to play a little prank. Ruth…
Island Style
1/17/99: I slept way in, but woke to find that Ruth had gotten little sleep at all. She was up most of the night with bad stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting. Haven’t…
Two Days In One – Part 2
1/16/99 Pt 2: Took off from Narita Airport late in the day on January 16th for an overnight flight to Honolulu… But, somewhere over the middle of the Pacific, we crossed the…
Two Days In One – Part 1
1/16/99 Pt 1: Our plane lifted off out of Denpasar a half hour late (1:30am), but it was an easy flight and we arrived in Tokyo around 7am. Stored our baggage in…
A Startling Truth
1/15/99: Today was our last day in Indonesia. In fact, it was the beginning of the end of the international part of our big adventure! We’ll be back in the good ol’…
Beware The Temple Guardians
1/14/99: The tour of the island was fantastic. We started at the Elephant Caves, named for some of the iconography, not because it is an elephant burial ground or anything like that……
Adding To My Collection
1/13/99: Bummer! I forgot to give Andy one of his CDs with media files on it for the brochures, so this morning we took a taxi to Granyar, a nearby town, and…
Under Budget
1/12/99: After doing come accounting of our expenses so far, Ruth found that we’re well under budget. But we are only five days from arriving back in the U.S. where we will…
Balinese Gamelan
1/11/99: Enjoyed a very nice breakfast on the patio of our room… Ubud is up in the hills of Bali, and incredibly lush with jungle foliage… There are no buildings more than…
Alright In The End
1/10/99: From the moment we boarded the bus, I had a weird sense that the driver seemed a shifty character, and I should have trusted my instincts instead of him… When the…