The Good Life

I have everything I want 'cause my imagination is mine. -Adam Schmalholz

Sunrise Over The Plantation

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Boh Tea Plantation

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Fog

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Mossy Forest

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Monkeys Cup: Nepenthes

Mossy Forest, Cameron Highlands

Tea Plantation

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Sea Gypsies

Bintan, Indonesia

Orang Laut

Bintan, Indonesia

500 Lohan Temple

Bintan, Indonesia

Epoch's End

Kuta Beach, Bali

2-Hour Line Into Heaven

Temple Of Lempuyang Luhur, Bali

Mount Batur

Bangli Regency, Bali, Indonesia

Gunung Kawi

Just down a mountain of endless stairs a 1,000 year old temple stood. Among the beauty of a vacation and the tropical jungle there was a path. It led to the right, through and to the left. Unlike everywhere else, the entrance was open. 

Damp fermented rice and a clear voice. 

An open invitation with a simple price. 

Open was the entrance, unlike everywhere else. It lead to the left, through and to the right. Among the beauty of the tropical jungle and a vacation there was a path. Just down a mountain of endless stairs a 1,000 year old temple stood. 

Ubud, Bali

Instagram

Ubud, Bali

Engagement

Ubud, Bali

Sup Bro

Ubud, Bali

Kopi Luwak: Civet Coffee

The coffee belt. That place where all those beans that end up in your cup arrive from. That red berry is the fruity outside that the Civet Cat eats. Now maybe many years ago people did indeed pick up its poop and make coffee out of it.

Now a days its more like this. A caged cat fed an all you can eat buffet of the coffee fruit. Since the beans are hard, this little guy poops them out; as can be seen here. Yep, this guy is pooping.

Why lock these cats up? Well if they were in the wild collecting their poop beans would be hard. These guys would poop in the trees, in the bushes, and everywhere else. Meaning bean poop collection would be hard.

So rather than track down the poop, the cats are put in cages and fed all the coffee fruit they can eat. Its then dried, washed, and ground down. It's then ready to drink.

All bad right. Yep made me sad. But like all things bad, the coffee tastes amazing. Did a blind taste test at the plantation and yes there is a difference and yes it does taste better.

Oh and at the plantation it also costs $5.

Ubud, Bali 

Freedive

Bali, Indonesia

Screw It, Let's Do It

USAT Libert, Bali

Oh The Places You'll Go

What I've seen. Oh what I've seen.

A landlocked boy that spent his childhood as deep in his grandparents swimming pool as the bottom would take him.

How do I get deeper? How do I spend more time at the bottom?

That first time. That first time I saw fish and a depth I questioned whether I could reach.
A friend of a friend that sat at the bottom.
Just last month; that first time last month. Wasn't the deepest. Was the clearest.

down and up up and down

Just last year; that first time last year. Was the deepest. Wasn't the clearest.
A friend of a friend that sat at the bottom.
That first time. That first time I saw fish and a depth I questioned whether I could reach.

I knew how to get deeper. I knew how to spend more time at the bottom.

A landlocked boy that spent his childhood as deep in his grandparents swimming pool as the bottom would take him.

What I've seen. Oh what I've seen.

Bali, Indonesia