Scribbles Abroad
Surfing The World
Month: October 2008
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It had been one month of eating rice and noodles, staying in the cheapest accommodations we could bare, and learning to haggle the hustlers when my parents showed up in Bali. This was their first time to Bali and it was a quasi honeymoon reunion. They were supposed to be here 36 years ago for…
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After Shaun departed we headed straight for Bingin. I hired a car and we packed up our gear. The driver didn’t want to put the boards on the roof because it makes you a red flag for the cops to pull you over for a bribe so we stuffed all the gear in a mini…
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So back to Bali we went. We arranged for a driver to take us to Bandarlampung airport where we caught a plane to Jakarta on Sriwijaya Airlines. The ticket was around $50 each and we were charged only $8 for all of our surfboards. We hopped on the plane and about 2 hours later landed…