Roadster Blues

This is what I usually do when I am in Indonesia: I eat my heart out, I meet my family, and I buy many items to be brought back to Singapore, but the activity that I spend most of the time in Jakarta is on the road, enjoying hours and hours of traffic jam.

Unfortunately, Jakarta is still troubled by the huge numbers of cars with not enough roads to run on. So it's quite common to see cars only move at the pace of 10 km per hour. And that was the highway, the common roads are even worse. Sometimes you can still see a cart dragged by buffaloes from 15th century still stuck there, unable to move even an inch.

But, my driver told me, you can still try to find alternative route so that you can avoid the congested main roads. That way, you will no longer need to worry about traffic jams, because you will be too busy worrying about being lost,
It because the streets in Jakarta is very confusing and was probably designed by someone with a sense of direction of Stevie Wonder. You cannot be sure where a road might take you. So I usually just stick with the main road and enjoy the traffic jam for hours while listening to the radios that give the news about how all the roads in Jakarta are congested.
I was wondering whether I could get used to it, stuck in a jam for hours, while hoping that my bladder didn't start to act wildly. I was wondering if anyone ever got used to it. But it's probably not a problem getting used to; it's just something that you have to accept if you want to live there. Me, I believe it’s better to drive a caravan there.