Padangbai to Lombok

We took off from the little Balinesian port town of Padangbai and loaded the ferry to the island of Lombok. To leave Bali was actually kind of a relief. I was done being asked a million questions as a lead-in to a sales pitch. The constant, "where are you going," "what are you doing," "is he your husband" and the inevitable "do you need transport?" or "you want bracelet?" was a huge HUGE annoyance.  So with the Balinesian hawkers gladly left behind, we boarded the ever-so-slow public ferry. Unfortunately, it was my day to be tortured, and they played The Mechanic for our visual entertainment. In Malaysia,  Brian forced me to go and see The Mechanic, and to my good luck, I was again a captive audience, obliged to sit through the beefy wonderlessness of The Mechanic round DOS. 

 Anyways, Lombok sits in the Nusa Tengarra archipelago and we thought this little island/the gilis would hold the key to our tropical hideaway. Well, unfortunately, we were dropped off at Sengiggi, which was nothing more than an expensive ghost town. We only spent the night, for free, and nothing is better than free! (The people running our guest house never checked us in or could be found again after first contact, oh well). Now we are at the beautiful Gilis islands, sipping mojitos and sitting on the beach while writing this...life is hard....