Mt. Merapi
March 14th 2007 This last week has been the best yet. We moved up the hill to where our friend has a small dairy farm. From my bedroom window there I watch the tips of bamboo, coconut palms, and other green trees sway in the wind, and I feel like all my dreams have already come true. We went on three hikes, the first up the side of Mt. Merapi and down one of it's hardened lava flows. The second was in a fores
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