"It is so nice to get messages on the blog and to know that our friends/family back home are following our travels :). Thanks for reading! 18 hours on a bus from Parapat to Padang, ..."
"After geting back to the Orchid hotel in the early hours again... had to wake up the hotel staff to let me in.. not impressed with me seen as ive done that almost every nite ive be ..."
"All Packed and Looking Forward to the next leg of the sumatran adventure we waited at parapet bus station for the noble craft that would be taking us arcoss the island to the weste ..."
"This was a not particularly pleasant industrial town. The only thing of note here is that Gert bought himself a surfboard and spent some time surfing the river mouth break. See mor ..."