October 19, 2014 Los Angeles, California Every time I go on a long trip overseas, say for a month or more, I get really anxious. I know it has to do with letting go… of routine, and hurling myself into…
Bali, 2014: Chapter 2, 9 Lives and Letting Go in My Banana Field
October 21, 2014 Mimba Village, near Padangbai, Bali, Indonesia The immediate reward of travel is perspective and being forced to let go. Don’t learn quickly and BOOM! You’re down. It didn’t take me more than 60 seconds on my freedom-loving…
Bali, 2014, Chapter 3, “Percaya”
October 27, 2014 Padangbai, Bali, Indonesia There is a word in Bahasa Indonesia, my wife’s native language, for “trust”. It’s “percaya” (pronounced “perchaya”). It’s a beautiful, complicated, difficult word. Beautiful because it means that you invest your faith and belief…
Java, 2001, bogor/madonna rant
12/29/01 bogor, indonesia so what’s it really like being here in west java amidst thousands of brown-skinned, ramadhan-celebrating indonesian muslims – deep in the thick of “kebun raya”, the incredible jungle botanical gardens of bogor? where i’m the only white…
Java, 2001, santa’s surprise – ja-vaaaaaa
december 18, 2001 bandung, indonesia selamat pagi, teman teman (good morning, friends) c’est moi, your trouble-shooting cock-eyed adventurer. on the island of java! paleolithic home of the original prehensile “java” man. monkeys fucking on the side of the road. dark,…
South East Asia, 2000, chapter 14, ba-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeee with tim robbins and susan f-ing sarandon
july 11, 2000 ubud, indonesia fair weather amigos– So here i am — jam packed and crushed in amidst 20,000 local and tourist folk — at a cremation ceremony in the public graveyard of central ubud. i’ve finally made it…