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Archives For September, 2006
Trawangan Fires
While I was living on Gili Trawangan in Indonesia we had a few fires there. Three to be exact. It has been a while. I don’t remember everything that happened then, but I will tell it as I remember it.
I had just gone during lunch to the market to swap my old book for a new one. I had read almost every book of the two main bookstores and it took me a while to find one. The owner of the store got bored waiting for me I guess and went outside. After 5 minutes he came back all excited. He called to me pointed at the sky and told me to come outside. There was a huge black smoke column rising into the air and seemed to come from somewhere in town. I paid for my book. I overpaid him I think, but I wasn’t interested in bargaining, I wanted to see what was going on and if my house and stuff was safe.
Worst Bus Ride Ever
I should have known it was a bad omen when I arrived at the bus terminal in Da Nang, Vietnam, about 10 minutes after the bus was supposed to leave and there were about 2 people, 20 sacks of rice, 20 pairs of chicken, all on the road bundled together in twos, and a couple pigs just standing around waiting for something to happen. First I thought that the bus had left already and I tried asking the vietnamese guy if I was too late for the 7 o’clock bus.
