No, not blues in the Robert Johnson/Mississippi Fred McDowell/Miles Davis sense. Blue is the color of the cabs you want to take in Jakarta: Blue Bird Taksi (Taxi) are cabs I have found most trustworthy around here. To answer a few questions: yes, I am in an apartment in Jakarta, which I have rented for the months of January and February, the break between fall semester 2009 and spring semester 2010. No, I have not permanently relocated to Jakarta. Yes, I am enjoying the warm weather, though mostly because there are air conditioners all over the place. That said, it’s …
Month: January 2010
The Beastie Has Landed…
I’m in Jakarta now, and in one piece — despite the insane, once-in-a-century once-in-seventy-years dump of snow we got on the departure day. It took three hours to get to the airport, instead of the usual one and a half, but the trip went well. More later…