After a whirlwind of a trip to visit my companies’ mines in Indonesia, I am back in civilization. As much as I love hanging out in some remote part of the world where life idly passes you by, work does beckons. What I always love about such trips is the part where you get humbled by Mother Earth and how dependent we all are in this information age. You tend to always rely on the lowest denominator of communications. In those remote mine areas where there is barely any telecom reception; I relied on good old SMS. Drop a message in your cell phone and then pray for the window of opportunity whereby you get signal and it gets send out.
There was a satellite phone but the costs were so crazy that it is not worth mentioning.
On another note, the trips also tests what my feeble city body could endure. Below is an example of what I had to “endure” to reach those mines.
Day 0
Late night Flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Hotel
Day 1
8am Flight from Makassar to Luwuk, Sulawesi
12pm landed in Luwuk, car ride to Mine site no.1
3pm Hit mine site no.1 did some work till
6pm Left mine site no.1 to visit mine no.2 on a 15hour car ride
Day 2
10am Hit mine site no.2. Did work the whole day till
Day 3
2am in the morning, take a ferry to Mine site no.3
12pm Reach Mine no.3 after a 10hour choppy ferry ride
3pm Left Mine no.3 and rush to Luwuk Airport (200km covered in 1hr 15 mins)
5pm+ Flight from Luwuk back to Makassar, Sulawesi
8pm+ Flight from Makassar to Jakarta, Indonesia
Overall, I truly enjoy such trips once in a while as you get to think more. By doing so, you get to clear your mind of a lot of distractions and spend most of it on thought process and strategic planning. However, I doubt I can stand a month or 2 of such . 
After all, I am addicted to the NET
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