Week #04
This week over 75% of the holes were drilled to support the foundation for our future retreat. In addition, steel rebar “cages” were built and placed into the holes in order to increase the strength of the concrete. Unfortunately, the…
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The Balinese & their Kites
The Balinese are an island culture, but one of their many unique qualities is that spiritually they look towards volcanos (skyward), instead of the sea. It’s not that they don’t like the sea. It’s just that the volcanos represent spiritual…
Pererenan Beach development project
We heard through the grapevine that some exciting developments we’re going to take place at our beach, and now the work has begun. First we heard that a bridge would be built that would connect Pererenan Beach with Echo Beach…
Digging deep for structural support
Because the building is approximately twelve meters tall (over 39 feet), we had to dig down to really hard ground in order to set the support columns. At four key locations we’ll have four rebar-enforced concrete columns right next to…
Travel Tips from the Frugal Five (@nytimes)
MG: I think I can actually boil my travel education down to two interrelated lessons: No. 1: The best way to be a frugal traveler is to learn to truly love the things that don’t cost a lot of money,…