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Last Updated: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 05:30:05 PM

This page contains a short summary of the high-points of events and activities for each month.  If it seems of interest, just click on the month to go to the page with a more detailed summary and all the emails from that month.. Or Click on the individual hight-point and go right to it! ...

 Enjoy.

Click on a year or start at the top with how I got to Bali in 2001!

Pre-September 2001 -

• The Idea is born in Hawaii

• The Universe begins to cooperate

• Packing & Selling & Giving Away

• My first BaliUpdate email

September 2001 -

• My loan gets Funded

• I House-sit my own house

• September 11th

• My first visitors are announced

• My Flight Experiences

• I arrive in Bali

• My Birthday

• Jim & Kelly arrive

October 2001 -

• Safe in Bali?

• Time Difference here

• T-Shirts

• New House

• Motor Cycle Boo-boo

• Summary of my 1st 32 days in Bali

• Jim & John

• Moving in

• T-Shirt Update

• New Friends 

November 2001 -

• Moving into the new house
• Jim & John and the Komodos
• Becky arrives
• Losing Weight
• Mexican Food & Ducks - a story
• Driving a car!
• Diving Menjangan Island
• Thanksgiving Dinner on Bali

December 2001 -

• Becky leaves
• Diving Menjangan Island
• BaliTravelInsider.com
• Driving in Bali!
• Bruce Sings!
• Massage details
• My new JOB

---------2002---------------

January 2002 -

• Sweet story

• Christmas Dinner

• New Year's Eve

• Work Update

• Christina Gere

February 2002 -

• The Rainy season & lightening/Thunder Storms

• Christina stays an extra Month

March 2002 - 

• Ellen, Justine & Scott visit

• Chris & Ben ask us to visit

• We'll all go to Thailand

• John will visit in April

• BaliTravelInsider.com update

• Thailand

• Balinese Nyepi Holiday

• Time & Taxes in Bali

April 2002 -

• Balinese Nyepi "Day of Silence"

• SF Visit planned

• New BaliUpdate web site

• Dates firming up Calif. visit in Aug

May 2002

• John Kassner visits

• Calif. trip plans changing

June 2002

• Dave visits

• Leave VisionTechAsia

• Teaching

• Diving

• Working

• Return to California - Final Dates

• Kites in Bali

July 2002

• 2002 Bali Kite Festival

• Sold my car

• Working

• California visit

August 2002

• Visit to California (Aug 20 - Sept 17)

• New BaliTravel-Insider.com website

• Videos of Bali added

• Car

September 2000

• Visited California

October 2002

• The Sounds Of Bali

• The Sounds of Bali - BOOM!

November 2002

• 4 weeks after

• A Balinese Speech

• 'Tribute to Peace & Unity''

• Jim & Kelly do a return visit

December 2002

• Completed TESOL course

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January 2003

• Summary of 2002

• What's ahead for 2003

February 2003

• Web Site Navigation and Bali Temperature

• Now a 'paid' writer!

• Teaching English

• Marketing

• An Indonesian Wedding

March 2003

• Lead Article in new magazine

• New 'Dream' car

• California visit planned

• The 500 year old village of Beraban

• World Peace Concert in Bali

• Visa change

• The US invasion of Iraq

April 2003

• Nyepi 2003

• Business Visa

• "WORLD PEACE MUSIC AWARDS" concert

• Two New Stories

May 2003

• West End Ubud map project

• Next visitor

• California visit in August

June 2003

• West End Ubud update and web site

• Yanti's Family visit

• 1st Annual World Peace Music Awards

• Bali Beaded Purses web site

• Asia-Pacific Harrier article

• John Kassner's coming visit

July 2003

• New House

• Bali Blog

• John Kassner

• California trip

August 2003

• California Visit Schedule

September 2003

• Our Balinese Hindu Wedding

• Wedding Costs

• Legal & Paperwork

November 2003

• Honeymoon in Java

• US Consulate & Yanti's Visa

December 2003

• Bruce & Yanti make plans to teach English in China!

• Christmas in Bali 2003

• New years Day Dinner

---------2004---------------

February 2004

• CHINA!

---------2005---------------

July 2005

• Back to Bali!

August 2005

• Mimpi Gula Guest Room!

• The family gets bigger

September 2005

• Big Month!

• New Job

• Yanti visits LA

• Some of my Calif Family info

October 2005

• Yanti's trip to the US

• The Briscoe family gets bigger again!

• KITAS

• The Pre Surgical Care book

December 2005

• Merry Christmas

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February 2006

• New House

• California Visit

• The kids!

• Coming up

April 2006

• Nyepi 2006

• Yanti's Birthday

May 2006

• Earthquake and Volcano in Indonesia

• Little holiday to the mountains with the kids

• Yanti and her orchids & roses

June 2006

• Back to Shanghai

---------2007---------------

February 2007

• Best Teacher 2006!

• Back in Bali

• Prepare for Jakarta

• New Apartment

• The New School Opening

March 2007

• The Apartment

• Wall Street Institute

July 2007

• Proud to be a Briscoe

• Recent events and coming up...

---------2008---------------

September 2008

• Visit to Calif last February

• Yanti & I visit Bandung

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