We arrived back into Bali from Dili without incident except for getting shook down for the cost of a brand new 30 day Tourist Visa despite the fact that we were only passing through for 24 hours before catching our flight out to Aus. We tried to buy the "transit visa" that does exist, but costs the same $25 as the 30 day tourist visa making it entirely pointless. We were irritated when we forked over the $50 for us to enter for 24 hours, but at this point, after...

The decision to forgo the Lombok to East Timor boat crossing was pretty much made for us by a combination of crappy weather and straight up traveler fatigue. We thus made our way back to Bali by means of a wild boat crossing and found ourselves at Padangbai on Bali's East Coast for a night before getting back to Denpasar to deal with purchasing East Timor tickets. We found ourselves in the notorious Kuta/Legian/Seminyak corridor of Bali with 3 days to kill -and ...

We returned to Sengiggi from our motorbike adventure by driving straight across the guts of the island. It was the much more direct route, but the thing is we had to share the roads with all the rest of the Lombok traffic including vehicles of all shapes and sizes from tiny motorbikes like ours to HUGE semi trucks loaded to the gillets with cargo and with people stacked on top and hanging off the sides. Every time we stopped at a light we'd be asked by pedestrian...

After leaving the sleepy village of Senaru, our plan was to make tracks down the east coast to a town called Labuan Pandan that was recommended by our very flamboyant hotel manager back in Sengiggi. Adrian was pretty certain that we would need to backtrack several miles in order to pick up the highway that runs all along the coastline of eastern Lombok. I, on the other hand, was fairly confident we had to take the fork in the road that lead northeast through th...

Having said goodbye to Mom and Dad; Gina and I rode back to Sengiggi with Evol, our driver, and discussed our plans for the remaining 2.5 weeks in Indonesia, indeed the remaining 2.5 weeks in SE Asia, period. We decided to kill a few days before the weekend trip to the Gili Islands by taking a little piece out of Ché Guevara's book: Motorcycle Diaries and hitting the open roads of Lombok on two-wheels. Our only decision was which direction to go: north; to moun...