1/20/99: The four of us drove up past Lahaina to Kapalua to watch whales today… Even from so far a distance as the shore they are incredible to see. Maybe we’ll get…
ʻĪao Valley
1/19/99: Ruth went off with Kathy to ʻĪao Valley today. Kathy runs a daycare center and it is field trip day… Mom went shopping, dad did his gardening, and I tried to…
SURPRISE!
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…
Time To Leave Java
1/9/99: It is time to leave Java… Wound up the work on the brochure over at Pak Yohanis’ print shop this morning, and dropped off the final proofs at S&J’s place… Went…
Us Versus The Volcano
1/8/99: We woke up just after midnight so that we could hop in a van and go on a tour to Mount Bromo. It is one of the few active volcanoes in…
Digital Design Tools
1/7/99: Spent some time with Pak Yohanis this morning, the local print shop owner that Andy and Shawn work closely with to get their materials printed… At his request I spent the…
Work Winding Down
1/6/99: The work is winding down… After a long day, cooped up in the room working on the brochures, it was nice to head over to Sean and Jan’s for dinner and…
Unexpected Affirmation
1/5/99: Ibu Enny serves a terrific breakfast here… While we were eating a young Indonesian man approached us as if we knew him. It turns out he had been part of the…
A Perfect Pensione
1/4/99: We arrived at the train station on time, only to find that our train was delayed by at least an hour… While waiting we met an Indonesian man who is an…
Exchange Rate
1/3/99: We walked around the city a bit, and strolled right by the Stasion Gubeng. That’s the train station we wound up needlessly taking a taxi from the other night. The taxi…
Taken For A Ride
1/1/99: Since we are near the end of the international leg of our trip, we did some more shopping for gifts to bring home for family and friends…. At one place I…
Diverse History Spanning Millennia
12/31/98: Today we went back out to the area where we saw The Ramayana the other night. We took a guided tour of the surrounding area, which included both Hindu and Buddhist…
Outdoor Theater
12/30/98: More shopping. More “guides” trying to route us to the stores where they would get commissions… We managed to get some shopping done anyway… One rickshaw driver tried to chat me…
Batik Artisans
12/29/98: While walking around town today I got slapped on my bum by an old lady with a huge wad of chewing tobacco in her mouth, and very few teeth left in…
Of Sultans And Salesmen
12/28/98: Breakfast at the “Superman Restaurant” again. I suspect the name comes from generous serving sizes… We took a tour of the Sultan’s Palace. Well worth a visit… As we walked back…