It’s time to get myself back to work. It begins with a brand new layout for my website: johncarlosestrada.com The great people at Real Graphics in Lufkin have majorly upgraded my portfolio I made in grad school. The upgrade has my resume, anchor/reporter highlight reel, stories and writing (personal and professional). Lufkin photographer Philip Harbuck took […]
It’s time to make our 30 hour journey home to Texas. “This is going to be the longest Sunday ever!,” said Ainsley. She’s right we started our travel back in Bali at 5 a.m. on Sunday and land in Houston at 11 p.m. Sunday. 😱 But it’s worth it. Two weeks we didn’t even know […]
After the case of the lost wallet was solved — we headed for the Temple on the Lake on Friday morning. The temple is on the north side of the island and over 1,000 years old. We also met our best Bali driver Gusti Rasnayasa. He was 23 years old and drove a Toyota tricked […]
Our Thursday in Bali was an adventurous one — from a bike ride to a lost wallet — it didn’t disappoint. We began half the day driving to Bail’s volcano, which erupted in the early 2000’s. Our tour guide said monkeys live at the top — if you see them run down to the village […]
“You make me whole,” he said as we sat poolside alone early Wednesday morning in Bali. … I met Bruce in March 2014 — about 6 months into my time in Victoria, Texas. I had moved back to Texas after a decade on the East Coast getting my schooling and experience in journalism. I had […]
It was another early start for the four Texans in Bali for a week. We had one thing on our agenda today: the Elephant Safari Park & Lodge. “I want to hug an elephant, tell them a secret and kiss an elephant,” Ainsley told us during ourbreakfast. A 50 minute drive dodging Balinese on […]
It was a busy first day in Bali. We arranged a hit of all the major Balinese highlights with our driver, Rai. He picked us up after breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Rai made it a point to learn all of our names. He had a tough time with Ainsley’s name — but he tired. Our […]
