I arrived in Indonesia on the 1st of August and I write this in the fairly early hours of the 2nd September. It doesn't seem possible. When I embarked on the rally it was scheduled to last virtually three months, that's a quarter of a year you know. A quarter of a year and the route, if followed exactly, would cover almost 2000nm. A fair bit of cruising for one season and almost excessive when you think that Brisbane to Darwin was 2000nm as well. Cracking the whip a bit, no?

Well here we are. A month has just evaporated. Granted I missed the first four scheduled rally stops due to 'problems' but even so the pace has felt pretty relentless. Indonesia is a place of friendly, eager to please people and thus far it's been a delight. Apart from the aforementioned technical problems of course. If you have an opportunity to visit, either by boat or by Boeing then I strongly recommend that you do so. Perhaps the accommodation won't be five star, possibly the service won't be and certainly the organisation will be a little erratic but it's a great place with interesting things to see and do and as I said, friendly people who appear to enjoy having visitors.

This last month has also yet again demonstrated the power of the Internet. I have been (yet again) overwhelmed by practical help, help offered, advice and encouragement. I thank you all. Some of the problems have been, at least for the moment, overcome and some remain in the background. Well that's life but as my daughter Pauline commented in an email. 'whoever coined the phrase plain sailing?'

For those of you who read them, the new Karno adventure 'The Kaieteur Caper' will be released on Amazon in both ebook and paperback this month and next month sees the publication of 'Eliezer's Journey', the first novel that I wrote. It has indeed been something of a journey to see it published. There was one false start but it's taken three years! I used an exclamation mark but you know, that's pretty much par for the course, despite all the overnight successes one reads about.

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