Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That's so Norwegian that you do that. That's like a Norwegian fight for.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 19 of the Daily On Back. That. Hi, everyone.
Wow. We got a really cool day. Actually, we woke up and we decided that we wanted to do our morning routine, did some stretching, did some meditating. We were like, hey, we can't be inside for the fourth day in a row.
So we decided to go in a long, freaking walk. Yeah, we actually walked. We did this ridge hike that's near us. either side is this big water ravine type river in the middle of a jungle here.
Yeah, it's just beautiful. And it was really sunny and really hot, but it was beautiful and it was such a good hike, but it was really short. It was only like 2.2 kilometers. So by the time we got to the end of it, we were like, we get finished.
I was finished. No, I mean either. So we thought we took the long way back, which it was a total walk of 12 kilometers. About 7 miles.
7.4 miles. That's crazy long. My feet were hurting. Yeah, by the end of it, I was really ready to be done.
But it was beautiful, though, like. And I love getting to see new places that we haven't seen yet. Huge and long bamboo trees that are hanging over the road that we had to walk under. We see locals and local shops and kids biking around in the streets.
It's just a different life. Dogs and cows and roosters. All kinds of different things that you definitely, look at that huge ants on our wall. Okay, I got it.
Can you kill it? Yeah, I'm gonna kill it. All right, get out those. I wish you guys could see this, but Kayla has a flip-flop in it.
Yep, you heard that. That is definitely a dead ant. There's like dead ant juice on our wall now. Well, there's also a gecko blood and brains.
I didn't try to kill it. I truly try to save it. He tried to save both geckos, but they ended up dead in the saving. I've saved two and I have killed two.
Yeah, so we're evened out with her karma. Yeah. That's not how karma works. No.
What we're talking about? Yeah, the life here is just so different, you know. And it's hard to, like, kill us from the United States, but I would even say Norway is even a wealthier place. Like the living standard in Norway is higher than it is in the United States.
And I like, that's what humans do. We compare what we see to what we know, right? And then just realizing that these people grow up here and it's just not even, you know, for me to imagine myself in a situation, a living situation like this is just unthinkable. The way that they build houses is nearly completely by hand.
And they use bamboo to hold up the structure that they're in the process of building. And I see these children, like 14, 15, 16 year olds on the side of the road barefoot sawing wood with a big saw to go into their construction project, using a pulley lever by their hands to load buckets of cement up to the second floor. And the system in which they build things is so barbaric, I would put it that it almost seems like undoable to build a structure in the way that they do it. But it's all they know, right?
Like I see construction sites in Norway and that we have machinery and we have hard hats and yeah. And everything they need to both stay safe and be effective and this is just such a different life. Yeah, we were talking about, the first day we got here, we actually asked one of the women at the front desk of our first hostel that she's ever been to another country and she has never even left Bali. And that's insane to my mind to even imagine.
And she was probably like in her mid 40s, maybe early 50s. And that's probably the case for a lot of these people. The only thing that they know is this way of life and everything else that they know, they just probably learned from Western TV and four years ago. But I don't feel like that doesn't even exist because we walk through the streets here and we see some televisions like, all right, all right, and we see what people watch and it's mostly Balinese stuff.
It's mostly Indonesian, it's mostly like Asian type. So for all we know, they don't even know what the hell is happening on the outside of this island. That everything that comes in is stay here and everything that goes out. They never see.
So it's just incredibly crazy to me to imagine a life like that. But these people, definitely, like it's, and especially for me, like you were born in the United States by, by United States by parents and that in itself, it's like, you know, that's great, you know, that's better than so many places in the world. But how my reality could have been if it wasn't for my parents moving to Norway, like I wouldn't have been here with you. I wouldn't have, like my life would have been so much different.
It would have been completely different. It's just so, so crazy to me that, that the chances of life are so varying. It's so, so crazy. And that's one of the reasons that I love to travel is to experience stuff like this and do, because what I had said before is that, what we think of as life is what we're doing.
We think that's life, you know? But what I do, what I consider life, how I live is completely different than how these people consider life. They find happiness in these times also, like they find, I see people smiling and having authentic smiles and it makes me believe that they also find happiness and joy and peace in their reality, right? And that to me, like seeing smiles like that is what like suits my soul a little bit.
And it doesn't pull me into these vortex of negative thinking about like, how can you even be able to find happiness in a world like this? But I guess that's just how humanity is, right? Crazy stuff. So after the Ridge Walk, we went to, we went to the Western Union because of the friend of mine that owe us some money that we needed to go get, but there was no Western Union in which the- Yeah, we watched extra far, extra, extra far to get there.
And when we got there, there was not even like a building where it was supposed to be. There wasn't even like a space for it. Like I thought maybe it wasn't there anymore and it used to be, but there wasn't even like a spot. So we pulled ourselves together and we walked back home and on the way there, we took Grandma Jan's advice and we bought food from one of these carts or these very, very- Which we had been avoiding eating out because we heard a lot of people saying like, to not eat at these carts on the side of the road because Bali Bali, I don't even really know what it is, I just know I'm scared of it.
I didn't imagine that you feel icky and you feel like you probably gonna throw up. Diarrhea. Kind of, yeah. Probably one thing to say about it.
But we took a chance, we got fried tofu and we got fried bananas. Fried green onions. Fried green onions and fried. And fried fried.
It just tasted like the fried. It was great though. I feel like it was like a nacho chip or whatever it was. Yeah, maybe it was a fried chip or something.
We paid them $25,000. $25,000 rupee, I think it was a huge bag of food. But we ate it like really fast. Yeah, it was great.
It was so good. We got home and then we started working. I was surprised that we actually finished with everything we wanted to do today because we had a blog post to make. I had an email to send.
We had Hootsuite things to post, like Instagram. We did all of it. We did all of it. We got our rest of Bali plans.
Yeah, we got to rest our Bali plans and the money figured out. And it was one of the things I wanted to say. Yeah, we even started packing because of tomorrow. We are moving hostels again.
The hostel number six. Yeah. The hostel number six. Yeah, and this one is on the same street that we were on.
Actually, it's not. I think it's just like a mile away or something like that. It's very short, so we're going to walk there tomorrow after breakfast and after our morning routine. We're going to walk up there and we're going tomorrow.
We're going to try to go get the money that our friend owes us out of the bank. And that was something we were going to do tomorrow where I sold vlogging, the video that we wanted to put out. So start making vlog video 11.5. And the reason we wanted to do that, 11.5 is because for some reason, I've probably said that in the podcast.
No. For some reason, we are at 11, at vlog 11 right now, but we don't have an eight. So we're going to make it 11.5. So, and after that, we didn't really do much.
Oh, yeah, we called out to make sure we got all that stuff, but that's probably not some interesting stuff to talk about. Thank you for listening, guys. Yeah. Thank you for unpacking with us tonight.
Yeah, this is what we should do. Like, this should be our ending. Thank you for unpacking with us today. The way you said that was funny.
Thank you for unpacking. Thank you for unpacking with us today. And we'll see. I sound like the meditation lady.
And we'll see you tomorrow. This session has come to an end. We'll continue our practice tomorrow. All right, good night, guys.
Good night, guys. It's a lovely one here. Thank you for listening. And have a photophilic finish.
Yes, but he's done. Have a great night.