Arrive Bali
Left Hawaii at midnight on thursday and arrived safely in Kuta Bali at 4 am on Sunday morning. Survived 12 hours of flying, 12 hour layover in Tapei and the dateline crossing.
Yesterday was my first day here, and I already got barreled at Balangan. I also got locked into another tube that deposited me on the reef. If you know balangan you know how easy that that can happen at the end of the wave. It just gets hollower the further you go. It is hard to pull out as you see the barrel get thicker and thicker, then dry reef. I chose to pull out, only Minor scrapes mom.
I also tried the scooter transport, imagine me, a 120 pound indo driver and a surfboard on a scooter, a little bigger than your standard moped. I was shocked when we got a flat.
Already ran into a friend from North shore, we are thinking about driving+ferry to Desert Point, where I got the Longest tubes of my life last year, or going back to G-Land. I wil probaly get a cel phone here so I can text message relatively cheap and still be in contact if i leave the civilized part of Bali. Until my next update, Aloha this christian bartsch reporting from the internet outpost in Kuta, Bali
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