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Monster Wipe-Out

July 1, 2016 – 12:53 pm

In 1996 Richie Boy flew out to Bali. I met him at the airport. His baggage consisted of a knapsack and three surfboards. “Why so many boards?” “Because one of them is for you.” Richie Boy had come halfway around the world to surf Kuta, Ulu Watu, and G-Land. “Me.” My surfing skills were taxed […]

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FROM BIAK TO MEDAN by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

September 23, 2015 – 10:05 am

FROM BIAK TO MEDAN covers my travels from Indonesia’s Irian Jaya to Sumatra in 1991. It was time was before cellphones and ATM. My modes of transport were tramp liners, jets, prop planes, horses, motorbikes, trains and buses. I was a ‘mistah’, but soon learned enough Bahasa Indonesian to know that ‘angin’ was dog and […]

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Tubes in Bali

August 28, 2012 – 8:49 pm

Bali 1993. Richie boy and I hired a guide to take us to this spot. The aussie swore it was surfable. We looked at the break. The waves were double-overhead, but we saw coral heads above the water. Richie Boy and I said ‘no go’. The aussie said we were wimps. he took off on […]

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Doomsday Compromise in Bali

December 15, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Two weeks of bitter talks in Bali ended with the US compromising on a plan to start decreasing carbon emissions by 2009 in order to deal with worldwide rising temperatures. Only problem is that we may be too late, despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declaring, “This is the beginning, not the end.” The jungles of […]

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