Category: Musings (Blog)
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THE GREAT RESEARCH PERMIT SCAVENGER HUNT SAGA. PART 3.
PROLOGUE PART 1. Bangkok. PART 2. Jakarta. PART 3. SAMARINDA It was a relief to leave Jakarta and fly to Balikpapan, the capital of the province Kalimantan Timur (SE Borneo). From Balikpapan, it’s a 3 hour drive to Samarinda, where my collaborators/friends Danielle and Budi of the NGO Y.K. RASI live, and where I needed to…
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THE GREAT RESEARCH PERMIT SCAVENGER HUNT SAGA. PART 2.
PROLOGUE PART 1. Bangkok. PART 2. JAKARTA Arrived late at night on August 7. Happy to see that the driver I’d hired to take me to the hotel was there with my name on a sign (love that). He was friendly, and his car was clean and new and functional (these things are not guaranteed).…
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THE GREAT RESEARCH PERMIT SCAVENGER HUNT SAGA. PART 1.
PROLOGUE here. PART 1: BANGKOK First, I needed to pick up my Visa 315 from the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok, since it would not be ready before I left the US for fieldwork in Thailand. The emailed instructions seemed easy: “Just go bring these letters and pick up your visa in Bangkok.” I envisioned breezing in, handing…
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THE GREAT RESEARCH PERMIT SCAVENGER HUNT SAGA. PROLOGUE.
“It will take several days, and Jakarta is awful, so I recommend you hire someone to go around to the offices for you, so you can relax in the pool at the hotel. Get a hotel with a pool.” Such was the advice of fellow grad student Geoffrey, over two years ago, as he guided…
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Work is Sanuk
“Work is Sanuk” is where I’ll be posting research-related blog posts, consisting mainly of tales from fieldwork, but also with some background about my current project and related issues (small cetacean bycatch, artisanal fisheries, conservation in developing countries). I’ve decided to move all of my blogs onto this site, with research-related posts archived in , because…well, it’s silly…
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Play is Sanuk
One of the reasons I love what I do is the travel – and my less research-oriented travel blog entries will now be posted on this site and archived at the Ravoravo Roving Ramblings link in the top menu. (Posts were previously at the separate blog Ravoravo Roving Ramblings). With these posts, I keep friends and family…
Tara Sayuri Whitty 