Adventures in Southeast Asia

As promised at the beginning of our trip, here's a post with more details on Changi Airport in Singpore.  Apparently rated the number one airport in the world there's certainly a HUGE array of things to do here, free and not so free. After a relatively quick two and a half hour flight from Bali, we arrived at Changi around 6pm.  Our first order of business was to check our bags so we didn't have to lug them around with us for five hours.  We were able to do this pretty seamlessly in about a five minute walk from our gate for about $8 USD.  Once our bags were secure, we headed out in search of food.   On our first trip through Changi we'd notice a second floor street food food court and there was a dish that we'd missed during our trip through Singapore, so we decided to start there.  We ended up with a meal of mussels, fried rice, boiled eggs, and the missing dish, carrot cake, which isn't at all what we think of as carrot cake.  It's l...

We're on another adventure.  Earlier this year I received notification that two proposals I submitted to the International Consortium for Social Development Biennial Conference had been accepted.  Two years ago I attended this conference in Croatia.  This year, the conference is being held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.  I told Landry if any of my proposals were accepted that we were going together.  Indonesia is a bucket list location for me and I'm so excited that we're on our way. As you may note looking at a map, Indonesia is basically on the opposite side of the world.  After searching long and hard we made the decision we'd rather have one really long flight than series of three or four flights with multi-hour layovers each.  We settled on a flight with Singapore Airlines from Newark to Singapore and then discovered that we'd be lucky enough (or not) to experience the single-longest nonstop flight in the world...18.5 hours in flight!  The bonu...