Paul’s Thoughts on Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Ubud is just like Asheville. Sometimes sitting in a restaurant in Ubud is just like sitting in a restaurant in Asheville. Same food - huge, delicious organic salads, burritos, veggie burgers, mixed veggie bowls with rice and tahini sauce. Lots of tofu. Same food as health foody Asheville. Then there are the same folks sitting around us. In Malaysia we saw one couple from the US during the whole month. (That’s the truth, not an exaggeration.) Here people from the US are everywhere, and they’re the same sorts of folks - exactly - who we see in downtown Asheville. The conversations are the same too: lots of talk about yoga, organic food, macrobiotic eating, alternative health and wellness…. It’s quite odd. The food is delicious, but sometimes the Asheville-ness becomes
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