November 26th 2010
We started early the next morning in order to even the lost we achieved yesterday, so we took off at 5:30 am. The inn provided us with our breakfast, just plain rice with omelette and it is enough since we have plenty of cookies in the car.
The trans Sumatra east highway
The trans Sumatra east highway is in good condition and facilitate us with a smooth driving away from Tulang Bawang bound for Jambi our next stop for the night, but Murphy decide to intervene.
The first of many fuel filter cleaning
Just after entering Kayu Agung in the South Sumatra province the engine start to jerk. Quickly we analyze the situation, engine was serviced a day just before departure, the ignition plugs are new and even the distribution system were made sure working properly before departure so we guess that there must be fuel problems and probably the petrol is not dirt free so we decide to clean the fuel filter, and later we found out that we have forgotten one important fact that after a long period of time water condense at the fuel tank and accumulates so eventually it will enter the fuel filter and how can the car keep going when you feed the car with water? This lesson thought us to remember to check when we are using a car which is not new and it tank has never been cleaned. We do not have the facility to separate the Hydrogen and oxygen to be able to use the hydrogen from the water yet at this moment. BTW we have to stop six times to do the fuel filter cleanings before we reach our final destination. Morale of the story do not count that there will be no incident, there are so many things that we tend to overlooked each time when we plan.
The Palembang famous Ampera Bridge
With much difficulty and engine jerks we finally reach Palembang at noon time and start looking for a car garage to repair our car. The new color of the Ampera bridge at least cheers us a bit but we are again late.
The flyover going out of Palembang to Jambi
After repairing the car, we take no time and immediately depart for Jambi with stomach a bit complaining and it is 2:30 pm when we took our lunch just at the outskirts of Palembang on the way to Jambi.
We were not sure whether we were able or not to reach Jambi for the night but when we were tired and looking for an inn at a small town before Jambi all is full so we have no choice but to continue the journey to Jambi. Tired and hungry we reach Jambi at 10 pm something that we did not intend to do but was forced to, on the other side we reach our 2nd day target, Night at Jambi at a simple inn.
The door at the right corner leads to our room at Jambi
When you are tired an aircon really helps to get asleep soon, and we decide to start very early next morning.
