Before we left out hotel in Kuta, John and I hired a driver to take us to our homestay in Ubud. Our initial intention was to go straight there and do a bunch of day trips to the surrounding temples, but our lovely driver—who I'm going to call Gus because I can't for the life of me remember the man's name but it sounded like Gus—told us he'll take[...]

After 20+ hours of air travel and layovers, I finally made it to Bali with my dear friend John to begin our three month Southeast Asia trip.