Harmonica

Harmonica

adventure time

Adventures Comes / Disaster Goes....

What a wonderful adventure - I wake up this morning in wrong train in the wrong city. Bandung is 300 kilometers away from my intended destination of Jakarta. It is 630am

...and there is a meeting at 2pm...
...and the next train from Bandung to Jakarta is full...
...and I'm dressed in a polo shirt, shorts and sandals...

Oh Yes, the trails of corporate business and general travel adventure.

Zoom, in a taxi to the nearest Bus Station.
Walk, through a hulking bus yard finding a bus. "di mana? di mana?"
Sit, in a rickety bus with frostbite aircon

For 1 hour, nothing moves and I wait.

We wait until it moves, and when it moves it moves in staccato fashion zooming through traffic and screetching to inappropriate stops along the autobahn to pickup any villagers or mobile food sellers.

We stop and go and stop and go through rice fields and green tea plantations. Slowly the green landscape rots away to concrete, canals and smog-traffic to reveal an emerging Jakarata before spitting me out at a fruit-named station called Rambutan and off again into a blue bird taxi for another hour of blue bird taxis.

Nevermind the shower, nevermind the clothes. We change in the office toilet and brush our teeth. Truthly, our is still just me but I have with me Patti Smith on audio book and a spinning mind sketching out a video for the company. So to keep the loneliness at bay I is We.

At the end, a simple text to frame the day: "Hi Darling, great disaster adventure this morning!" *send* 😁😁