Friday, September 16, 2011

Bali in a couple of bags of nutshells

Hello Hello, to anyone who is still following these musings of mine.

My last post was on 24 July. It is not 16 September.

I am currently in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on leg 4 of my Asian Adventure having spent 2 amazing weeks in Thailand with the wonderful Sandy Lam, whom I miss greatly as she has made her way safely, thankfully, back to her home in San Francisco.

Life certainly does move fast doesn't it. In the intervening time between this post and last, I signed off in Korea by having Adam stay with me for about 8 days. It was a good 8 days. We went to the DMZ.

If you will remember, I had been once before in January...wow... that was 8 months ago... wow...moving on...

This time around I got a clear shot...urm... I mean line of sight... *clears throat*, into North Korea from Camp Bonifas - A US army instilation on which the meeting room, for the uneasy neighbours,...

Hey what do you know, twice I checked my slepping on MS Word for some tricky words and twice I got them right 1st time. There is hope for me yet... again drifting off topic, sorry about that, back to it then...)

...that you see on TV, can be found. We also partied it up in Deagu until about 2:30 in the morning. With the last hour of that approaching, we went to a Noribang (Kareoke room) and Adam proceeded to fall asleep after 15min - despite the attempts of Ashli Itami, Libby Lundeen and myself to shock him into staying awake by belting out a number of inebriated tunes at the top of our lungs, for the full hour no less!

In between all that I had summer holiday camps to get through, which I did easily enough and I was given 8 hours to pack up my flat and vacate the premises on the day my contract finished. There were other hassles too but today is about celebration.

It is about my 1st holiday holiday, as a tourist, outside SA. My Trip to Bali, Indonesia with the lovely Ms Deborah Brown.

This was the trip that we had planned for our contracted summer leave. Basically I just needed to get out of Korea and rest and I kinda wangled my way into Deb's plans.

It was an amazing trip with an amazing friend and travel buddy. Far be it from me to say "I must tell you everything abou the trip", as there is not enough time in anyones life to sit down and read all that.

Instead I have constructed 2 videos - one of the 6 days we spent in Kuta and one of the 6 days we spent in Ubud. The viewing time is 20 odd minutes for the videos combined but they are comprehensive reviews of the places we saw and things we did. I hope you enjoy them.

Sit back

Relax

And Enjoy...






Who knows, I might have another post or two before I get home - I have taken A LOT of photos in Thailand and in Cambodia (so far) and I am sure there will be loads more of Malaysia as well. You will have to wait and see. If I do post for these places it will be in the same format as today's post.

Hope you are all well.

Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me
For sure
That's what friends are for!

Have a goodie y'all - Geoff out!