Veggie Delight

August 28, 2017: Sanur, Bali, Indonesia

Tristen Mills
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read
Mount Agung

Listening to: Elephante— Plans (ft. Brandyn Burnette)

Real life update — I’m still in Bali, having a great time exploring, but I am SO ready to get back to my little Lembongan and back underwater! Bali is a bit of a strange place to me, having traveled quite a bit around other parts of SE Asia. It’s too easy to get comfortable here, and I think I have a guilt complex about comfort when traveling. Is that a thing? Maybe I’ve just been “traveling” for so long that I’ve forgotten how to be on “vacation.” There’s a difference, I promise!

One thing I love about Bali: the food. Indonesian food is generally underwhelming, but the island’s Hindu culture and yoga hippie expats— bless them — have made it even easier to be a vegetarian here than in tree-hugging San Francisco. So easy, in fact, that I accidentally became one last time I was here! It’s true, I became a vegetarian by chance. But I stayed one by choice, and nearly four months into this herbivorous life, I honestly don’t miss meat that much. Maybe because I just eat cake now… kidding. But really, the only thing I crave on the regular is bacon.

And now, a haiku:

Your shine and sizzle

The scent of you as I woke

I miss you, bacon

Aaand that’s the end of this short post! Brb, going to eat tempe at a temple.


Dive Diaries

PADI Dive Instructor solo traveling & scuba diving, among other things. Most of my friends are fish.

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Tristen Mills

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Reader. Writer. Dive Instructor. Feminist. Environmentalist. Human Being.

Dive Diaries

PADI Dive Instructor solo traveling & scuba diving, among other things. Most of my friends are fish.

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