Healthy Eating In Bangkok and Bali

I was happily surprised to find so much health food consciousness in Bali. Wherever you looked, at least in Ubud, restaurants had signs that...

Being Fair To The Other Bali

Maybe I haven't been fair to the southern part of Bali-- Kuta, Seminyak, Legian, Jimbaran Bay, Sanur, the sprawling tourist ghetto surro...

Anyone Ever Offer You A Cup Of Mongoose Crap Coffee?

I never drank a coffee in my life and I resisted the temptation to try yesterday when Roland, Helen and Michael sampled some coffee made fro...

A Day Of Being A Tourist In Bali

t's tempting to just never leave the villa. It's cool and breezy inside and like living in the Garden of Eden. But now that my frien...

The Soft White Underbelly Of Paradise

I'll leave out the mosquitos since they don't seem to be bothering anyone but me. (I'm, literally, a bitten up mess. Helen was w...

Bali: A Day At The Cremation

Funerals aren't my thing. I go to great lengths to avoid them. So when Made, the cook, invited me to come to her grandmother's crema...

Small World-- Adventures in Bali: Wayan Nuriasih, Healer

Right now there's virtually nothing that attracts me to leaving the grounds of the villa I rented on the outskirts of Ubud in central Ba...

Preparing For Danger In Foreign Travel-- Is There Anything To Worry About In Bali?

Most of the e-mails I get about this blog ask me how safe it is to travel to Morocco or Mexico or India or Mali ... even Buenos Aires . I...

The World's Most Dangerous Countries

Not much tourism going on in Somalia I'm putting the finishing touches on my return to Bali. I booked a flight from L.A. to Bangkok and ...

EATING IN BALI-- YUM, YUM

One of my favorite things about travel, as I explained in my Morocco blogs ( here and here ) is eating. I love trying new and exotic foods,...

WHITEWATER RAFTING ON BALI'S MIGHTY AYUNG RIVER

A very long time ago I used to work for ARTA , a non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving wild rivers, a goal they work towards by bri...

MY FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH-- AFTER HOME: BALI

Because I've traveled so much and to so many places people are always asking me which was my favorite. For many years I would always say...