My time in Bali has been very relaxing so far. Sunday I slept in, spent the morning exploring the resort and bought some groceries in town. The afternoon was spent laying by the pool, reading (the book you gave me "What Should I Do with My Life" is very good, Lesley - thanks!), and writing journal entries. I used the work out room and went to the piano bar at night. The weather in Bali is beautiful - warm and only a little humid and it is windy this time of year ...

Today I traveled from Singapore to Sanur, Indonesia (on Bali). Along the way I had a 4+ hour layover in Surabaya, Indonesia (on Java). I've uploaded a photo album with some pictures from Surabaya. Below are a short and long version of my thoughts on Surabaya. SHORT VERSION The short version of the journal is that 4 hours was plenty of time for me there and I was really happy to leave Surabaya. The Sampoerna museum was very interesting and it was nice to s...

Some of you asked for a little more information on the things I'm seeing, places I'm going, etc. So below is a longer version of my journal for my day in Singapore. I admit there is not much about my day in this expanded journal that is not in the previous journal so if you want to save time, skip this journal entry. If however, you want to know more about the history of Singapore, my musings about the nation, why I went certain places, etc, then read on but cons...

The trip to Singapore was very long but went smoothly. I adjusted to the time change on the way over so I was more than ready to go to sleep when I arrived at my hotel after midnight. I had a wonderful day in Singapore on Friday. I could easily see spending a week here. But since I only had 1 day I hit some highlights as you can see in my photo album. I enjoyed the Raffles hotel and Merlion Park a lot. I wish I had had time to enjoy the Asian Cultural Museum...

Singapore is 15 hours ahead of Sacramento. I leave Sacramento at 6am on Wednesday morning, lay over in San Francisco for a few hours and then fly 'direct' to Singapore (its a direct flight with a change of planes in a Tokyo) and arrive at 11:30pm on Thursday night, local time. So with the flights, layovers, and time difference it appears to take about 41 hours to get from Sacramento to Singapore! (That's ok because it only appears to take about 5 hours to get hom...