Just got in from Timor yesterday and was walking up Poppies Lane 1 this morning. The little girl there was selling watermelon and papaya and other fruits in small plastic bags. Most places these little bags of fruits are 500 to 1000 rupiah. Even in Kuta.

I was hungry and decided to get some from her and asked her the price. 2000 rupiah.

I gave it a pass and she immediatly dropped the price to 1000. A wonderful tourist woman walking by thrusts 2000 rupiah in the girls hand and keeps walking. I was thinking how much she helped this girl. What a kind heart.

It reminded me of yesterday when I bought a beautiful hand woven blanket in Timor for about 40 dollars. It was real quality and probably took 2 months to make. 40 dollars is a lot of money in Timor.

Then I stopped at the mini bar last night in Kuta and a Surabayah hooker there wanted to boom boom for 35 dollars. I gave it a pass.

Met a guy in Guatemala 20 years ago. He mocked his father for being a campasino or farmer when he himself had it all figured out selling pot to the tourists. His father was such a looser working for a living.

Or at the ruins of Copan in Honduras where chubby American ladies would get off the tour bus and giggle as they handed out money and candy to the children. The children made more money begging from the tourists than their parents made working.

Kinda wierd.