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As you probably know from reading Denise’s account, she broke her collarbone during an otherwise fantastic beach vacation in Batu Karas. She also received two incredibly painful massages on the broken bone - not a hairline fracture either, a proper break - before we knew what the problem was. She is an extremely [...]

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There’s a big market in downtown Bandung near the town square, and part of that market is dedicated to pirated DVDs and music.  It was closed recently due to a police crackdown, but the appropriate bribes have been paid, and it has been allowed to reopen.  I went there today, and purchased the following:

The Simpsons [...]

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A couple of weeks ago we began our adventure in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo) by flying into Banjarmasin, the largest city. We discovered to our dismay that there were NO flights at all to Pangkalan Bun, the starting point for the jungle river journey that we were planning. The only other [...]

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