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Rice paddies and a house in Ubud, Bali

A Walk in the Rice Fields

When she was a little girl, Su’s father built her a little tower on stilts in the rice paddies. Not to play houses — unusually...

view over rice fields, ubud, bali

A Very Little House

This is the view from our very little house in the rice fields in Ubud, Bali. We’ve taken it for a month, to study Indonesian...

little fluffy clouds across an Outback sky

Going Nuclear in the Outback

The Outback majors on crazy towns. Tiny communities, stranded in an inland sea of sand and scrub, hundreds of miles from anywhere. Yet even after...

The curving edges of Wilpena Pound, a gigantic geological depression.

Seeing Stars in the Outback

Weather doesn’t get more biblical than droughts, floods and plagues of locusts. And that precise trifecta has hit the South Australian outback this summer. The...

A Little Adrenaline

From terrifying, world class surf breaks at Ulu Watu to the beginner-friendly swells on Kuta Beach, from one of the world’s easiest and most satisfying...

Heaven and Hell on Wheels…

Bali. One of the most consistently beautiful places on the planet. With (outside the timelessly international package hell of Kuta) a culture that is beyond...