Denpasar is supposedly the Bali transport hub, but it seems that the only reason to go there is if you can't get a ticket for where you want to go from somewhere else. Transport on the island is a big easy network. But we were about to go to Java, and our only option was leaving from Denpasar, so we went. We arrived in one bus station and had to...

Upon arriving at Manila airport I was met by "Nancy." "Call me Nancy." She said in an indisputable American twang. It was bizarre to be immersed in the sound of America amidst an undeniably Asian people. It is not only the vocabulary and lilt of the language, but the informality and seeming intimacy, the "catch ya later style" that made Manila a...