Categotry Archives: Thursday Thirteen
Cabo San Lucas Pix
I’m trying to organize my travel posts for easier access. Right now I’m working on my two trips to Cabo San Lucas. When I did the posts, I was participating in a blog challenge called 365. You were supposed to post a photo every day. A lot of my Cabo posts were nothing more than a photo. Here I’m bringing some of them together so people interested in the trip don’t have to click on a dozen posts just to […]
New Years Resolutions
I actually started my New Years resolutions a month ago. Sometimes resolve takes more than a year to bear fruit. 1. Write for at least an hour every day 2. Get more exercise 3. Do more sewing 4. Eat more fruit 5. Eat less fat 6. Deal with my left hip 7. Get a new car 8. Stay on top of my finances 9. Not procrastinate 10. Be more affectionate 11. Fix up this blog 12. Lose thirty pounds 13. […]
Surfing
It started off with a search for images to use on labels for gift wrap. We have a large collection of decorative cloth bags for wrapping Christmas gifts. Not only is it more ecological, it’s quicker and easier to grab a bag. Unluckily, the sticky labels I usually get at the store wont stay on. I need the kind of card stock with a hole type, but either can’t find them or they are ridiculously expensive. So I make my […]
The Last 13 Things I Have Done
In reverse order: 1. Come up with this post. 2. Read a few chapters of a manga called Gantz. 3. Realized I needed a T13 post. Drew a blank. 4. Read a few chapters of a manga called History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi. 5. Snacked on carrots. 6. Read Gantz 7. Discussed snow storms and travel plans 8. Ate seafood stir fry for supper. 9. Ok, there’s a lot more reading and eating, but I’ll skip to more highlights. Went to […]
13 Words
Guess who is trying to come up with a Thursday Thirteen after bad time? 1. National 2. Novel 3. Writing 4. Month 5. is 6. in 7 November. 8. How 9. many 10. words 11. have 12. you 13. written? I’m up to 40,000 already. It’s one of my better noveling years. The photo is from dolphin chasing in Bali.
13 New To Me Bands/Musicians
Recently I’ve been discovering bands and musicians I really like that turn out to have been around for a while. Sometimes quite a while. It reminds me of when a friend discovered Pink Floyd about ten years ago. How did I miss these guys the first time around? Some haven’t been around all that long, but clearly a lot of people already know about them. 1. Dave Navarro
A Look Back at Indonesia
After the expedition to Rinca Island, the rest of the trip was about going home. We stopped off at a couple of places on Flores, like the fish market, but they were just short stops. We spent one last night in Denpasar but mostly to accommodate the airline schedules. The big event there was a last dinner together and an expedition to a large mall. Then it was a race around the rim of the Pacific to outrun a typhoon, […]
Rinca Island
If Komodo Island had not already put its name into the name for a certain monitor lizard, then Rinca should have. They had more, and more active, Komodo dragons than Komodo. It’s a longer boat ride from Flores, but not by too much. We arrived to find the docks surrounded by boats. Apparently in Indonesia they don’t have anything like a polite or reserved system of using docks. No authorities check the right to moorings. When we arrived, we had […]
Cecer Village
Our guide for the the Komodo portion of the trip – I mean everything from Bali until we left – comes from the Manggarai tribe. He took us home to visit with his people. This was a day long excursion that involved a drive along the twisty roads of Flores. Flores is only 220 miles long from tip to tip. Back home that would be about three and a half hours. We only went about ten miles along the spine […]
Komodo
There is a dragon in this picture. See him? He’s right out front! Still don’t? That’s pretty much the story of our visit to Komodo National Park. Well, partly.
Open Market and Hospitality in Flores
Flores’s main claim to fame is its proximity to Komodo Island. It’s the closest place with suitable accommodations, and thus is considered a gateway to Komodo National Park. The island itself is very long and thin, running almost exactly east-west. It is essentially the ridge of a mountain range. That means there is precious little in the way of flat spots, and the roads are all very twisty.
Mirror Rock Cave
At this point our group split up. About half flew home. The rest of us continued on to Flores Island for an extra week of exploring. We flew in, arriving mid-day. On the way from the airport to our hotel we stopped off at Mirror Rock Cave for a little light spelunking. We were very lucky to do it during the dry season. On the walk in from the parking area to the cave you could easily see how the […]
Accommodations
All the places we stayed in Indonesia were quit grand. Marble floors were common. The beds were all very comfortable. Generally we each had our own double or even queen sized. Although I struggled with it, I could be sure every place offered wireless. They didn’t even charge extra for it. Every place offered some kind of breakfast. Most offered turn down service complete with sweets. I didn’t get any pictures of the one in Jakarta. We arrived in the […]
