“Open the gate; don’t let the cows out,” said the note field on our back-country camping app. We shut it behind us and inched down the dirt road, hoping the heifers would clear a path. “Could this really be the way?” I said to Mike. We rounded the bend, and a river flowing around a […]
Monthly Archives: August 2026
A string of tiny tropical islands, fringed with coral, dotted with palm trees, and traveled only by horse cart and bicycle… the Gilis are a place of traveler legend. Our boat skidded onto the shore of Gili Trawangan, the biggest isle in Lombok, Indonesia’s six-mile-square archipelago. Three naked kids splashed around in the water, while […]