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A Chance Encounter While...N Indonesia Get the best of Oprah.com in your inbox. Sign up for our newsletters! Oprah Toasts Photos from Oprah Has a Look Who Some Living Oprah and Close Encounter Visited Oprah! Legends Stedman's Trip of the Wild Side to Serengeti Advertisement The 17-Hour-Indonesian-Bus-Trip Guide to Life Posted: Fri 09/28/2012 03:47 PM | By: Amy Shearn Tweet 38 Pin It 5 Comments A friendly stranger swoops in to save a befuddled traveler. A phone issue in Indonesia leads to a 17-hour bus ride full of teenagers. These are the everyday miracle moments we live for, right?—when a random encounter leads to an unexpected journey. Lisa, the blogger at Chicky Bus, believes that "that when you put yourself out there—off the beaten path—and take some risks (nothing crazy; just stepping outside of your comfort zone a bit), amazing things can happen." This is right off her bio, and guess what? She lives about Life Lift Photo: Thinkstock by her Chicky Bus creed. The blog is full of adventures just like this one: a recent trip to The Oprah blog is a place where you Indonesia, when a conversation in a restaurant led to a wild shopping trip with a local, which in can find engaging news coverage, fresh inspiration, and the straight talk you've turn led to the aforementioned totally unexpected bus trip with 20 teenagers. Read her post for come to count on. A place that provides the whole story, and to view an infectiously fun video of the girls on the bus trip, which looks like the tools you need to make a change—if absolutely the most joyful experience ever. Lisa writes, "Was it fun? Yes. Did I sleep much? No. not in the world—then at least in your Still, it was a good time. And I love how it came about–thanks to a random travel moment." little corner of it. It's a place that will raise your energy, lower your blood As Martha Beck writes on this very site, to live a life rich with everyday miracles, all one needs is a pressure and occasionally make you " sense of what's probable—and a world filled with moments of grace, strange synchronicities, laugh—in short, a place of possibility. and perhaps (who knows?) the occasional bedroom full of guardian angels." So where are your everyday miracles today? And when they appear, will you let them in? 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