HEY FRIENDS, here goes my inaugural preamble of a blog post.
I'm currently bustling about in preparation for the arduous series of flights and boat rides that will take me to Kaledupa. Which basically consists of a pendulum-series of questions such as:
Should I bring my hiking boots or are they too heavy to be worth it? How quickly will these flashlights run out of batteries? What ratio of comic books to self-indulgent paperbacks to novels-with-actual-literary-merit should I bring? Will the children like the Sesame Street or Little Pony coloring books better?
In the midst of all this, I am making slow progress ... I think. The haphazard piles of STUFF in my room would probably beg to differ. But, such is packing -- it gets worse before it gets better right?
Anyway, I suppose I'm feeling the expected jumble of emotions - anticipation, apprehension, anxiety. a-a-a for Adventure?
More to come later. For now, here's what my next couple of travelin' days look like!
- 10 pm flight from Newark to Malaysia (Mon)
- Arrive in Malaysia at 6:30 AM (Wed)
- Fly to Jakarta, Arrive in Jakarta at 10 am (Wed)
- Fly to Kendari, Arrive in Kendari at 4:30 pm (Wed)
- Overnight stay in Kendari
- Ride to the harbour at Kendari (Thurs morning)
- 6-hour speedjet ferry ride to Bau Bau (Thurs)
- 9-hour overnight ferry ride to Wanci (Thurs-Fri)
- 2-hour boat ride to Hoga Island (Fri morning)
- Short ferry ride to Kaledupa (Fri)
PHEW. Ahh. Exhausting. BUT, I've been told to watch out for dolphins and flying fish on the boats! So I'm feeling optimistic.
Over and out,
Steph
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"The boats from Kendari to Baubau is fast boat we called superjet and takes 5 hrs...
ReplyDeleteBaubau to Wanci by overnight boat (wooden boat) it takes 9-10 hrs"
This Acho fellow sounds like quite a character. Come to think of it, so do you. When I told my cousin in Jakarta about the long and hazardous route to Kaledupa, he asked me if I'd brought my own lifejacket. I laughed. "No, seriously. Often they don't have enough." Great.