Sae Finneeeee

Say, “it’s finished”? I’d love to!

But actually, there’s a bit more to go on my vacation posts. The only thing I did was get through processing all the photos. It took just short of a year. The posts will push me to over a year as I still have over twenty to go. If I only post about it twice a week that makes two and a half months of Indonesia left. That’s not counting about a hundred random pictures that will probably be turning up on random, unrelated posts.

Then it’ll be time for another vacation! 😀

Last Thursday a few people asked why I was searching for tree bark. I was hunting for an ingredient in the kind of tea they serve in Indonesia. They served it everywhere from the nicest restaurants to a little shop on the side of a volcano. It has some interesting properties. Since I’d already posted about it, I didn’t make enough effort to explain myself. It’s been waaaaay too long since I mentioned it.

Actually, there were a few other things I meant to say about tea trees. I had always through tea grew on bushes. When I saw pictures of it being harvested, it looked like people in a vineyard, only bushier.

Turns out it’s a fairly normal tree. We saw one in the wild. It was about a story tall. The plantations keep them trimmed back for their own convenience. The one pictured above was a volunteer that rooted itself in a fence in Kasongan Village.