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Happy Birthday to me!
... me with his repeated question of 'so what are your plans tomorrow? When can we meet again?' with my repeated answer of 'I have no particular plans tomorrow and maybe we will meet again, maybe not!' (actually I'm now hoping that we don't meet again! Later Luis drives me back to my hotel or within a 10 minute walking distance to my hotel and decides that he can't drive anymore since he feels a bit drunk and he walks me back to my ...
Natural Wonders of North Sulawesi
... of coral of every imaginable shape and color. Then coming towards us, like a massive herd of stampeding wildebeest, all moving in unison like a super-organism, were hundreds and hundreds of red-tooth surgeonfish. As they deftly manuevered themselves through the coral, I realized they must be running from something, but what? We crested a hill and there they were, hunting, three huge Napoleon fish 5-6 feet long, weighing a couple hundred pounds each. It was ...
Day 130 - A Justified Shriek
... the island in dark, the tide was low so the boat didn’t reach the beach. Eli and an Australian fellow jumped into the water helping to push the boat from waist deep to knee deep where everyone disembarked and waded ashore.
A careful inspection of our room reminded us of Tioman in Malaysia but nicer and probably no bed bugs…hopefully. As we were settling in, Mia let out a shriek that caused Eli ...
Day 129 - Managing a Travel Crisis in 6 Easy Steps
... we were 400,000 IDR short (calculations using 9000 IDR to 1 CDN on the fly is a good example of ‘using’ math in the real world…). Visa or Debit did not apply in this scenario.
We did have the general contingency of US Dollars that we keep to pay entry Visa’s and for just such an emergency. The Dutch man kindly offered to trade us for our shortfall. Without a verbal word spoken, only fingers and a calculator, the agent ...
Dead or Alive!
... the pictures I had seen and the early morning walk with the black macaques was more interesting as they looked for food on the forest floor. Manado is also the gateway to Pulau Bunaken, a world renowned diving destination. The diving again was good but for now I think I have done enough diving on this trip.
I am flying to Flores tomorrow for the last stretch of my South East Asia trip through the islands of Komodo, Lombok and ...



