The Great Dopamine Rush of 2025

Today unlike the last few days, I woke feeling pretty allright. Which was a relief, as the last few days have been pretty rough.

As I have done very little exploring since landing in Bali, I decided to go check out Uluwatu Temple first thing, before the sun got too high. Normally I just self tour as tour guides can be kind of shit and annoying, But today I was approached by an elder guide and I agreed to pay his ludacris guide price of 150k rupiah. His name was Wayan, which if you didn’t know is one of 4 names of every Balinese person. They stand for 1 through 4, Wayan is 4th born. Because of this most Balinese have nicknames.

Wayan gave me a great tour, and I enjoyed the time spent with him. Especially when he pulled out his slingshot to ward off the thieving monkeys at the temple that prey on tourists. That was cool. His company was worth the fee. I truly do love the Balinese locals. They are a great people.

After my tour I headed to Ketut Massage, Ketut being another of the 4 names. I believe it is 1st or 2nd. To get my ears candled, I know that sounds weird but I’ve been having some weird hearing issues in my left ear and thought it would help. Well sure as shit, now I can hear good out of both ears again. I wanted to go do a paragliding adventure today, but after consoling my partner. Decided it was not worth it. I mean seriously $110 cad for a 15 min flight is an absolute ripoff.

I decided to grab a bite at a spot called GT warung, and had yet another completely different Nasi Goreng. Which was toatlly delicious.

From lunch I decided to grab my climbing shoes and hit a bouldering gym, for a workout. It was a great little gym. I was the only customer there, so I got to hang out with the 2 bored to tears staffers who showed me a bunch of the routes. It was a great hour session.

When I sufficiently tired myself out on the wall, I headed to the beach. Nyang Nyang beach was truly a spectacle, with an expanse of rocky coast and beautiful waves smashing the beach. I was there at high tide so there wasn’t much beach, but there was free lounge chairs. I settled myself in, and read the afternoon away. It was glorious, this is the only time this whole trip I just purposely did nothing.

On the way back to my hotel, I stopped at a restaurant call Warung Aunty. Where I had a traditional Indonesian dish called Rendang. Which was a sorta curried sorta not spicy beef dish served with rice and a side of the tastiest garlicy vegetables I’ve had in forever. This was truly a runner for best meal of the trip. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm, I could eat 3 portions of it.

To finish off my night I read some of my book and did a little preparation for tomorrow. Its gonna be a big day, that’s all ill say.

Till tomorrow

P.s as I finished writing this, I looked out my window to see a massive streak of lighting cross the horizon. I guess there is going to be a storm tonight. I think i saw 15 flashes in about 2 minutes so its a doozy.