Nusa Dua

We’ve set up camp for the next few days in the resort area of Nusa Dua. My trusty traveling companion is back on familiar ground at her beloved Hyatt, luring Joey to the dark side with snacks in the club lounge and a private sleeping cubby (a significant upgrade from the night he spent in Dubai sleeping on the floor).

This section of Bali is pretty much mega-hotel after mega-hotel on a peninsula walled off from the rest of the city, so a pretty sterilized version of Indonesia that is not super appealing. On the upside however, it does give us a chance to decompress by the pool for a few days an recover from all the hours spent on the road. Even better, the relatively stable Internet provides us access to the tools we will likely need to navigate the next looming turd nugget, which is getting off of the island we struggled so hard to get onto just a few days ago.

The volcano that caused all of the problems in the first place is still erupting, with flights taking off sporadically as the location of the ash cloud permits. The flight we are currently booked on hasn’t actually flown since we first got to Indonesia, so we’re not overly confident that it will do so by Friday (or if it does, that we won’t get bumped off it to get people home that have been stranded here longer).

Today however, there is absolutely nothing I can do about it, so off to the beach.