Pak Frans and an ojek driver takes us to Wolowaru Pak Frans takes his son on the bike gently answering the questions he has. It has been an incredible roller coaster of emotions being part of their family and on leaving I can’t help but cry.
A long trip ahead of us – the thought of being on a bus with five people across with raging music oh no! Steep sides on the roads the roads continually being repaired enlarged or just ‘broken’. Like Cambodia many people ride on top of the bus but not so dusty. How do they do it? - the bus turns this way then the other up down fast slow!
We get on the bus it is express to Ruteng on at 11. First stop 2 minutes down the road for lunch! It was a lunch spot run by nuns. There are a lot of nuns here and many of them were on the move-maybe because of holidays(one nun was returning after 5 years in Kenya - just imagining what the home coming would be like). Several of the young male passengers were in the Seminary returning home as well.
‘Marbuk’ has several meanings – drunk from alcohol, the feeling after chewing betel nut ‘sirih pinang’ and also from being car sick or just plain mini-bus sick. Every half an hour a guy in front of us threw out a ‘tas plastik’ plastic bag he was ‘marbuk sekali’. This happened early on in the trip – the trip to Ruteng his destination was 11 hours!!! Kasihan!!!
‘Inap di Ruteng’ late at night lucky to find a room – up early and on to Labuanbajo.
It is a port town and they are always interesting . Thomas has enjoyed the ‘bencong’ transvestite spotting in the areas close to the ‘kaki-lima’ small stalls with food along the sea front. Every day the ferry from Sumbawa docks and spills out onto the dusty main street. The schedules for the other ferries
require a lot more questioning! We are going to be on that ferry to Sumbawa tomorrow – getting a plane is not that easy as it is high season. We were after a quick get away to Borneo. We will get away on that ferry and the one to Lombok and then Bali but not so quick and sleeping two nights on a bus – executive class no less!!!
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