Saturday August 15
After a brutal 15 hour trip from JFK to Taipei Taiwan, I waited for my next flight to Jakarta, Indonesia. Three hours at the airport then a 5 hour flight. It was a very long day!
Taipei Airport: 
First impressions of Jakarta:
View from my room at the Alila Hotel: 
I met Jumena, the tour leader and the other eight participants of the tour group, Overseas Adventure Travels, at the hotel. We took a walk around the neighborhood led by our local Jakarta guide, Maria.
Traditional Wedding Posters:
Pharmacy:
Chinese Restaurant:
Maria making a sticky rice palm-pocket:
Street vendor cooking skewered beef called ‘satay’:
Eating street food:
Residential alleyway:
Cooking fried rice for take-out:
Vendors were setting up food carts along the busy street in front of established businesses. Maria said they sold food from 6pm to 1am. The people seemed friendly and they smiled at our small group of seniors. Cars, motorbikes, and three-wheeled vehicles clogged the street honking their horns at each other.