Reading Time: 25 minutesWhen Mike asked me last October where I wanted to wake up on my birthday in 2026, I decided I wanted to be in Bali.  I told Mike that I wanted him to do his research and tell me the things he wanted to do in Indonesia.  I shared that I wanted… Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe met Dairi because he works at the villa where we stayed for 16 nights in Gili Air, Indonesia.  He is smart, kind and generous.  He has a radiant smile that is constant and gentle eyes that touch one’s soul.  He speaks three languages – Sasak (from Lombok where he was born),… Read more

Reading Time: 9 minutesOur last 15 days have been spent living a more normal life than what felt like being on vacation for the time while Sarah was here. We have lived in the Seminyak part of Bali for this period of time. The southern tip of the island of Bali seems to hold the… Read more

Reading Time: 13 minutesWith our exploration of Komodo National Park complete, it was time to move to what drew us to Indonesia in the first place. Indonesia is on Sandy’s top 10 countries to visit list because of Bali and when she was deciding where she wanted to spend her birthday this year, Bali was… Read more

Reading Time: 10 minutesLast Sunday morning, our Grab car picked us up from the hotel at 7:30am and when we arrived at the airport in Jakarta the board said that our flight to Labuan Bajo had been canceled. Our hearts sank. We went to the check-in counter to find out our options and learned that… Read more

Reading Time: 11 minutesThis journal entry starts very early on Tuesday morning. The alarm was set for 2:15am and we finished getting things packed up so that we could be ready for a Grab ride to the airport at 3:30. Our flight departure was scheduled for 6am. Everything went as scheduled and the check-in process… Read more

Reading Time: 5 minutesSaturday was an exciting day as we get to greet one of our great friends from the States who is coming to visit us and explore Indonesia with us for a couple of weeks. We started the day with a workout, bananas and yogurt with blueberries, laundry, and I finished The Egyptian… Read more

Reading Time: 9 minutesMonday was travel day. We checked out of the hotel at 10am, walked to the Central Station in Amsterdam, and then took the train to the airport. We arrived at the airport around 10:30 and found our check-in counters for our flights on Indigo Air, a budget airline based in Mumbai, India.… Read more