Staying in Indonesia

Bali is paradise and, as everyone knows, it's tough to leave paradise. For the last few days I've been dreading the flight back to Kuala Lumpur, not only because big, dirty cities aren't my favorite places to chill but also because this is such a special place that will be enormously hard to leave. Yesterday, on a kayak ride with beer in hand, Mike and I were chatting about our tough fate, uh, flight (jk) and decided to change plans and move over to the islands of Java and Sumatra before we head back to Malaysia. This makes sense on a number of levels as it'll be cheaper travel, we won't have to back track so many times AND we'll get to see more of Indonesia and gain perspective on Bali's role in this massive country. So, for the next 10 days or so, Mike and I will be Java-ing it up before we head up to Singapore and then back to the land that is truly Asia.