April 25th, 2009 - Where do I begin? I found my ferry. Maumere to Surabaya. Roughly 65 straight hours on an Indonesian ferry. Who wouldn’t want to do that? I was hoping to spend a couple of days in Maumere but when I went to inquire about the boat I discovered that it was leaving that very night and the next ferry would not be departing for five or six days. This was particularly distressing as I had just met two attractive Dutch women with whom I was hoping to become better acquainted. Fiddlesticks!
There is only one boat that constantly makes the trip back and forth. So I gathered my things and showed up at the dock around 8 pm. The boat was scheduled to leave at 9 pm. I will give you one guess as to whether it departed on time. I passed out not long after boarding but I know we did not get moving until after 11:30 pm.
