First Day of Surfing in Lombok

The last time I was on a surf board, I was back in Costa Rica five months ago. Which just blows my mind because the beginning of this trip feels like a lifetime ago. A dream of a dream. I awoke promptly at 5:20am to the sound of rosters crowing. Ok, look – I’m a...

Does This Surf Camp Even Exist??

The night before in the hotel, I arranged a driver to take me to Gerupuk village for this afternoon. I was so incredibly relieved to know that my driver knew where Gerupuk even was. It’s small village that doesn’t even pop up on Google Maps. I’m heading out to this...

Being a Millionaire in Indonesia

This question literally just went through my brain: “Should I pull out 3 million or 4 million from the ATM?” I wish we were talking about USD. If we were though, what the heck would I be spending it all on? Which brings up an interesting question – if you had a...

Oh Hello, Jet Lag.

I landed in Jakarta after a long day of travel the day before. Not only was jet lag hitting me hard, but I also only got about 2 hours of sleep on the flight. So I was pretty dang tired going through border control. Indonesia requires that you have a visa, but...

Onwards to Phase 3: Indonesia

As a cheap frugal traveler, I generally opt to fly budget airlines. Like super budget. So budget, in fact, that one airline actually went bankrupt leaving over 100,000 travelers stranded in airports just days after I flew with them to Croatia. When I recently flew to...