back in the southern hemisphere

Oh man, since flying into Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali last night, I've barely been able to wipe the smile off my face. Cheap surf shops, beautiful smiling girls, and perfect waves are everywhere. Today I browsed around a bit and picked up a nice 6'4 T&C roundtail (that's a surfboard, not a girl), and tomorrow I'm heading a few minutes up down the coast to a place called Dreamland, aptly named since there are like 12 reefbreaks within 10 minutes. Kuta Beach is where the Bali terrorist attacks in 2002 and 2005 were, and now shops here sell these t-shirts reading "osama don't surf" and "fuck terrorists." Amen.