Nearly a year and a half has gone by since I last updated this blog. Although I am hesitant to restart the process and induce unrealistic expectations for the future, I have had enough people request that I keep them posted on my happenings via this blog.

For those who do not know, earlier this month I left for an interview in Indonesia with a charter company called Susi Air. Soon after arriving and performing the interview, I was asked to come on as a company instructor and sent away for training. Although I haven't found the same excitement of jobs past, I am happy to be employed and needed again. Hopefully this will give me a chance to pass knowledge on to other pilots, learn another culture, and do a bit of travel in SE Asia. I have no concrete timeline, but I am tentatively leaning towards returning to the States next year when the economy picks up - fingers X.

For the time being I am in a paperwork limbo. After pushing through training, I returned to Jakarta to find myself sitting around the office waiting on paperwork development. Tomorrow I will head to Singapore for a quick overnight visa run. According to instructions, I go to a McDonalds, drop my passport off with some "guy," and wait till he returns it a couple hours later. Sounds a bit sketchy, but it seems the thing to do. I'll let you know how it goes . . .