“Indonesia 🇮🇩 ~And That’s a Wrap!”

• December 15, 2019
• By Pen
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We have had an amazing time on Labuan Bajo Island; Komodo Dragons, beautiful scenery, and superb water for diving!

We are bit short on sleep, with that 4AM morning “call to prayer” 🙄, so for this alone, we must get underway, again!

In Singapore 🇸🇬, we hope to avoid the wake up call, and get more sleep. Here is what I researched, and we think Labuan Bajo, should take a page from Singapore’s playbook.

“There are 75 mosques in Singapore. The speakers for broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer was turned inwards to broadcast towards the interior of the mosques as part of a noise abatement campaign in 1974.”

We have been so challenged in the “electronics” department in the last few months! Seems like everything wore out at once! Daryl and I both have operating phones again, thankfully, and the big guy got a replacement iPad from Apple, recently as well, when the touch screen quit working. Then, while in Sri Lanka, my Surface Pro decided to not boot up again! I’m lost without my computer.

First thing in Singapore, will get to the Apple store, there…. I’m going all Apple, now, with a new computer… then we need to find a “geek” in Singapore who can get my Microsoft computer to open, or at least transfer unseen photos from our Leopard Safari in Sri Lanka! I sure hope I haven’t lost those photos!

In the meantime, for our last day, here on the island; in the pouring rain, we made a dash for the massage place and hit up one more; two-hours of pleasure, while it stormed, and the electricity went out. Then, after the storm, we topped off our evening with a repeat of the Mediterranean Restaurant we found, yesterday.

Earlier in the morning, I spent hours, finalizing our Egypt 🇪🇬 visit. We are so excited about returning to Egypt, one more time, as there is much left to see! We will spend seven glorious days on a Nile River Cruise, to explore Luxor and Aswan. Then, for Valentines Day, my love ❤️and I hope to Scuba Dive in the Red Sea. One of the most beautiful dive sites in the world!

From there, we finally make it to Turkey 🇹🇷; been trying to get there for years! In this case, I need to get a new passport, like Daryl had to in India 🇮🇳 (expiration is seven years away, but we both run out of pages way fast)!~ imagine that! So, we will need about two or three weeks in Turkey for the Embassy in Istanbul to send my application to the USA, and mail a new passport back to Embassy in Turkey.

Goodnight from the lovely Islands of Indonesia 🇮🇩