Bali Trip - Week 1

While I live in Darwin all the rest of my family live in Sydney. We're a pretty close knit family so every year I usually fly down to Sydney about a week before Christmas and spend Christmas and New Year with my family before returning to Darwin about 3 weeks later. Sometimes I will combine this with a holiday somewhere else - twice I've continued on to New Zealand, once to the South Island and once to the North - but usually it's just down and back. This year I decided to do something a bit different so two mates and I planned a 3 week holiday in Bali instead.

I said two mates, but in fact one of the guys had to pull out for personal reasons the day before we left so it ended up being just Jaysin and I. We went for a total of three weeks, and spent the first and last weeks in Kuta, with a weeks travelling around in between. The highlight of the first week for me was definitely my birthday. I've always been a water baby, and have been a competitive swimmer, a swimming teacher, a scuba diver, a sailor, a lifesaver and a lifesaving instructor, but somehow with all of that I still never got a chance to learn to surf. But all that changed our first week there.

On my 35th Birthday, for the first time in my life, I stood up and surfed. *G*

J.

Everyone's gotta start somewhere...

Well here it is. After much umming and ahhing I've finally decided to bite the bullet and start a blog. But where to start? I guess I should start with an intro.

My name is Jason Motbey and I'm a 35 year old school teacher from Darwin, Australia. I've been into computers since the days of the all conquering Microbee, and have been a net presence, albeit a small one, since 1991. Apart from my obvious interest in computers, I am a hockey player, eightball (pool) player and motorcycle rider. I am also mad about the water, and surf, swim, scuba dive and sail. In fact if it can be done in, on or under the water you can be pretty sure I've done it.

I teach Computing and Maths at Dripstone High School (http://www.schools.nt.edu.au/drpstnhs/), which is a coeducational comprehensive high school for students in years 8-12 (ages 13-18). We have approximately 800 students.

I have been riding for 15 years now, and currently ride a Kawasaki GTR 1000. It's a large comfortable road touring bike, and I have done two long trips on it - one loop through the eastern states of Australia, and one done the west coast, both of which were about 10000km (about 6000 miles).

That's probably enough for one day, so I'll leave it there. Hopefully it'll get more exciting as I get the swing of this.

Have a good one,
J.