Soul Searching

I only know how to do it for Firefox so far. I’ll keep you posted on how to do it for Explorer.
In the firefox browser when you’re on www.frankbutler.net, in the lower right hand corner of the browser in an orange icon (a square with a white dot in the corner and waves radiating out […]

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I treated the royal family once again, and everyone was feeling much better. Whew! They were super nice, the two princesses served me tea personally. I was honored. They sent me all over with their driver for my errands.

After all that I headed to an ancient buddhist temple called Borobudur. It’s a many tiered temple. […]

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Life is full of surprises, and this certainly was one of them. The setting is mind-boggling, absolutely stunning. More on that in a minute.

The first amazing thing was that the royal couple I met sent their personal driver to take me here. Truly generous of them. Then I got here and simply can not believe […]

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I took a much needed break today. Finally a day with no patients. The place I am staying is beautiful. On the side of a mountain, overlooking a green valley of rice fields. Nothing fancy. Running water, the hot water is a trickle. None of the staff speaks English - this is where the well […]

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okay, so I didn’t treat the royal family at the palace, but I got an invitation to dinner at their house tha evening instead. they have a wonderful place in the town of Solo and two beautiful sweet kids. We had a scrumptuous dinner (the best food I have had so far) of baby papaya […]

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After all that waitng at the palace they wanted to get me set up in a hotel, which they graciously arranged.
Actually, now that i’m looking back at it, it is completely possible that they were checking me out. Those two guys, the waiting with seemingly pointless conversation. very possible…
In any event I guess I passed […]

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So I get to the royal palace and i’m informed that the princess and her husband are running late. About an hour late. So they kindly fired up the dozen Gamelon musicians that make up the royal musicians (there wasn’t a one under 50, and I think most were pushing 80) and let them play. […]

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While I was in Ubud I figured out a couple of landmarks to help me navigate around town, while jetting here and there on my scooter. One of them was a doctor’s sign by the name of Gigi. I thought it might be some German expat that got sick of the west and came to […]

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This and Solo are supposed to be the intellectual and artisitic capitals of Java. I didn’t get to much of either. In Yogja I stayed at a very nice couples’ place that was really cheap. About 7.50 USD. You get what you pay for. The room was nice enough, the people were wonderful, but what […]

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I can’t say I’m sorry to leave Bali. It was great, and the people were super. It’s just that the energy on Bali is kind of frenetic, the scooters, the driving, even the local music - Gamelon - is frantic compared with the music of its neighbors.
The people at the local clinic where I was […]

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