kuta, bali...

( kuta beach )

( slow season )

( beach boys )

( floral sacrifices, apparently the gods chew wrigley's )

( hindu-buddhist temple )

( on my left: brazil, our surf instructor, on my right: michael, the german kevin spacey )

( bounty )

( eikon )

( moderately impressed )

( popies II )

( drinking bintang, the national brew )

( monument to victims of the 2002 bombing )

( drunken aussie foam party )

( bali sorgawi hotel )

( pro surf school )

( the souvenir shops )

( kopi pot )

( our local friends: martin, mr. and mrs. x, tito/tino )

( all hail the culinary crab god )

( crusoe's )

( "enjoying" our bintang/guiness concoctions )

( post-scuba )

( pretty sure this strapless helmet was mostly for show )

( flat )

( some new-age yogi )