I've arrived

32 hours of travel, spread over 3 planes and 4 airports and half the world, and finally Jakarta. The last 5 hours of travel (in daylight!) was the most interesting, as I was able to see the mountains, beaches, rivers and valleys of the Philippines and Borneo, and the small plots of cultivated land between the ocean and the Jakarta airfield. So many things we've written about came to mind: the disappearing rice terraces of the Philippines, the impact of the pollution caused by a copper mine on the people of Marinduque, the productivity of small plots of land. I've looked at the maps before, but the interrelationship of the islands is now burned into my brain in that 3-dimensional way only air travel can help with.