Jalan Hanoman street, Ubud

So far Ubud has been an interesting experience with a somewhat of a normal routine helping reduce the inflammation of constantly travelling and adjusting to new things. Mornings filled with Ashtanga yoga, afternoon adventures and excursions. The roads here are very well maintained compared to Nepal and Thailand so a 115cc scooter has been our Lamborghini of transport. Random traffic jams caused for no reason, random torrential rain storms almost daily, no speed limits, all with a wonderful humidity sitting around 70-80%. This style of Yoga I can tell you very succinctly expresses every little muscle imbalance, weakness and lack of flexibility you might have. My spine is much happier with the trunk rotations done with so many postures and now I can experientially confirm that custom orthotics are just a band aid type solution with any imbalances whether intrinsic or extrinsic muscles of the legs and or feet. Without them my balance is similar to an abandoned new born baby kitten. Which by the way we ended up adopting one for a few weeks. We had been out running errands and had pulled over to escape another afternoon downpour of rain drops the size of bricks under an abandoned building. There were some other locals there and we gravely acknowledged the egregious situation. Hearing a very strong shrieking meow from under one of the others' scooter, we looked and found a small kitten screaming for its life. Beth attempted some kind palpation but was met with strong fear, so declined. Hours later that day we discussed the situation again and decided to try to help somehow. We went to the market and purchased the necessary supplies(Beth knew what to get, I just bought some chocolate), took it to the vet a few times now and will take care of her until we leave. We have a local family here that will care for it afterwards.Read more