I am now in Australia, but here are some notes I scrawled ages ago as my Asia dream came to a close... Lake Toba was a hard place to escape from. If I wanted to head South, which I did, the only option by land was a 18 hour bus journey to Pedang, with nowhere to stop on the way to break up the trip. It would be through beautiful mountainous countryside, but it would be at night. And the road is a swirly bumpy nightmare I was informed. I decided I was going to do it though, and as a result stayed in Toba for far too long, alot of 'one more days', when ordering a pizza and watching football seemed like a more appealable alternative to bus torture. Eventually I bottled it and booked
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