While most of you know everything I'll write about in this post and have likely forgotten it by now (memory seems to fade as quickly as summer the older we get), I am reminded periodically when I meet one of you in the grocery store and you ask if you missed all of my Bali blog posts, that not all of you have ventured into Facebook, which was one of the few online services I had decent access to while in Bali. So, while you didn't miss Bali blog posts - there was only one - you did miss links to photos from my 3 hour visit to Doha and from the amazing month I spent in Bali. You'll find links to the photos and video on a web site I created for a conference presentation on the Brave Project for those of you who missed them.
So why one post from a whole month in Bali?
Well, three things happened.
2) Despite going to Bali specifically to teach technology skills at a local Yaysan (after school program), internet access in Bali is weak at best and awful at worst. I knew lots of friends and family here at home were concerned about me traveling alone to a place most of us knew so little about, so I did my best to create a post right after I arrived that let folks know via photos, sounds and words that all was well with me in my little village. When I look back at that post now, I think it does a great job of describing my life near Ubud over the next few weeks, despite writing it on only my 3rd day there. I was also able to post a 5 minute video to Youtube that I took with my iphone while traveling back from the local market on the back of Nyomen's motorbike one morning to allow folks here to see what it was like outside of my homestay. For perspective, it took about an hour to upload each minute of video - when it actually worked. So I took pages and pages of offline notes and thousands of photos that I hope to begin crafting into some sort of a book soon. Stay tuned on that one. :)

So returning home, jumping back into work, adjusting back to the local time zone (Bali is 14 hours ahead of us, so night and day are reversed there compared with here) and allowing my body to heal took priority over blog posts.
So that brings us to now. While Bali was certainly a culminating part of the initial phase of the Brave Project, that project is not over! I've been on local adventures since returning home, both planned and unplanned, and the next post will catch you up on those as well.
For now . . .get your own brave on and get out there tonight or tomorrow night to catch some of those perseid meteors! Bonus points if you remember how to know they are perseids based on what we learned at Star Camp last summer!
It's good to be back to the blog.
PS: I have spoken to several classrooms and groups about my experiences in Bali, and I have some great local items I brought home to share with people. If you're part of a group that would like to know more about Balinese culture, let me know!