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Exploring Raja Ampat’s Magic
Day 1 Landed at sunrise at a tiny airport in forest drenched Sorong with a rusted roof on the one carousel baggage claim area filled with porters. Took an ojek ride past markets and trash-free streets and Papuan women’s slow … Continue reading
Logistics for Raja Ampat on a Budget
Here are some details about trip costs & logistics: Fee for tourist tag to enter Raja Ampat is Rp1,000,000 (for KITAS holders as well as foreigners), and a large part of that money goes to conservation efforts in Raja Ampat, … Continue reading
Books!!
At a cute coffee shop in Colorado over the Winter Break, Jana Clark (my former teacher, who mentored me to become a teacher myself, and dear friend) said, “For your Christmas present, besides continuing your subscription to The Sun Magazine … Continue reading
Trekking in Sumatra
Our plane arrived in Medan, Sumatra 30min late. We headed to the toilet (“Wait, so the bucket and the…” “Yep, it’s a squat toilet. And no toilet paper.” “This is an airport; I’m sure there will be toilet paper.” “This … Continue reading
Shorts: Traveling in Lake Toba
Riding the ferry alone to Tuk Tuk from Parapat in Sumatra, an older man with slightly rheumy eyes and a long, left thumb nail smoking a hand rolled cigarette yells to me in Indonesian from where he sits with his … Continue reading
Planting Trees at Besikalung
As a part of our unit on rainforests, my students created a service project in conjunction with Friends of the National Parks Foundation (FNPF). FNPF runs three orangutan rehabilitation posts in Kalimantan where they also do preservation work with turtles … Continue reading
Illness in Bali
Since I arrived in Bali a year and a half ago, my body has been beset by illness. From Bali Belly where your insides turn to liquid to weird rashes to discovering I have an allergic reaction when bit by … Continue reading
Biking Near Selat
Rumi and I headed up through Klungkung, just off the southeast coast of Bali, and then up towards Selat before turning east and following a winding road through rice paddies and over a bridge spanning a wide river before parking … Continue reading
I love you because…
I was lucky enough to have my good friend Nick Wightman send me a link to this website just before Valentine’s Day five years ago: http://www.ilyb.org/ I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the way the messages and the imagery … Continue reading
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For Tanya and Andy Tonight a crescendo of insistent frogs call from the field behind my house chanting incantations, discordant and ceaseless. There are not words for when my friends’ motorbike arrives outside my gate and this symphony … Continue reading
Denver to Bali 