Bali

McKay and I love to travel and save our money and military leave to do so.  While looking for an apartment we sacrificed the size of our apartment in order to save enough to travel - Best decision we made!  

Some friends and family have been asking us how we like to travel, so here's M&M's travel tips.  We love backpacking and think that it is the way to go when traveling, especially if you want to see a lot.  We also full-heartedly support winging it!  That's not to say that we don't do any planning.  Rather, we create a skeleton for the trip, reserve our first hotel, then stay longer in places we love and leave sooner from places that were not as cool as we thought they would be.  We have also found that hotels are more willing to give you great deals, because they want to fill up their hotel, especially if it is low season, which is when we prefer to travel.

Now....

......to Bali!  

Here we are as millionaires...

in rupiahs! (which is about $100)

The following photos are from our drive up to the very northeast tip of the island, to a town called Tulamben.  The terraced rice paddies were stunning!

When we arrived to our bungalow, it was as though we had been transported to our own little paradise.  Tulamben is an almost non-existent town that is famous only because of the USS Liberty shipwreck, which is just off the coast (it was literally 20 meters from our bungalow).

I just about died when I walked into our bathroom.  This is not uncommon in Bali as many places have their bathrooms outside.

Most people stay in the south of Bali and then take buses up to dive at the shipwreck, but McKay and I were so grateful that we decided to stay in Tulamben, because it really had some of the most beautiful scenery we saw on our whole trip.  

The fresh caught fish for dinner was the perfect close to our day!  Look at that red color!