Last entry was supposed to be a goodbye. My last entry from Jakarta. But then I went for a walk the other day and this all happened. After work, I needed to […]
One Last Walk
The Trouble with the Gays
It’s been just six weeks since the bombing and shooting in Central Jakarta, so it is understandable that the country is in an uproar about… the gays. All the other letters are […]
On Topik
Walking to the fruit store late one afternoon, we found a much less trafficked, safer path. We passed several Kaki Limas parked on a street corner. Kaki Lima means 5 legs, and […]
Lombok
Here is your travel tip of the week… Go to Lombok. Bypass Bali and head to the next island down the chain. Why? Well, the island had been described to us as […]
America: Head and Shoulders Above the Rest
Secret Asian Man returned to North America for a brief time recently for work and pleasure. It was so refreshing to walk in cities with only limited amounts of trash in the […]
From the Tropical to the Mundane
From last post’s tropical to this post’s mundane. S.A.M decided we needed a bank account. Most people we’ve run into just use their U.S. accounts and withdraw cash with an ATM or […]
Past and Future Struggles.
Spending the weekend in Dili, just exploring. Decided to learn more about the resistance and the Timorese struggle for independence. Having been ripped off in little niggly bits by cab driver after […]
Jilboob
Read a news article the other day about “Jilboob.” This was not in the New York Times. Jilbab, in Indonesia, is the wearing by women of head scarves and not the full […]
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