Tour de Sanur

Right when you think you have it figured out, you’ll be proven wrong. Part and parcel of living on this … More

Two Beaches, Worlds Apart

I’ve seen my share of beach. From Spain to France, from California, Florida and Mexico to Bermuda and Turks and … More

A Bali Pilgrimage

You Can’t Go Home Again, the title of Thomas Wolfe’s posthumous novel, came to mind recently when I made my … More

The Kitemen of Kerobokan

Along with fishing, climbing trees, playing on scooters, and turning leaves into whirligigs, kite-flying is a pastime of Balinese boys. … More

The Sun Always Rises

Consider this. A scraggly line, more like an arc. Its  form still invisible in the darkness. Yet we wait, steeped … More

The Big Flop

I was feeling all wound up. In extremis, you could say. I wasn’t sleeping long – or well. My eyes … More

From Beach to Shining Beach

On the tails of my pan-Indonesian/Singapore/Bangkok adventure, I crossed an interminable number of time zones and eventually landed on a … More

Souvenirs of Sanur

It was time for a break. After weeks of wondering about Mount Agung’s “imminent eruption” and navigating through the crowds … More

Happy Beachday!

Since arriving in Adelaide, I’d been watching the forecast closely, at least twice a day – a habit I’d long … More

When The Relatives Came

It was a long time coming. After six years of living in Bali (halfway around the world from my birthplace), … More