After 10 days of silent meditation, I am now a lot more sympathetic to what Neo must have been going through when he discovered the Matrix. Â That is to say, a shit ton of PAIN. Seriously folks, we are not hippies. Â We are not new age, crystal-and-gem-stone healing freaks. We’re not that deep either, we
Have you ever wondered where J-wow and Snookie would vacation if they came to Asia? Welcome to Kuta, Bali, the austro-european equivalent of the Jersey Shore, complete with fake breasts, fist-pumping nightclubs, and serious narcotics. It’s curious how this small peninsula of  trashtastic party beasts can exist in a country with a zero-tolerence policy and the death
Ahhh! Salaam and good evening to you worthy friends, please come closer and listen to this incredulous tale of Indonesian intrigue, of mystery, of fleeting fame and yes, it’s all true. So we booked it out of Jakarta on business class train to Yogyakarta (Jog-ja), the cultural capital of Java. Happily we didn’t have to
Jakarta is a pretty confusing city. All our research (ahem, the 5 minutes we spent on the LP forums) points out that Jakarta has no city center, that it’s horribly dirty and to get out immediately. Â One person even advised tourists to stay inside and escape the heat in the extensive malls. Â It appears that
