MAF Tarakan pt.1

Last week we finished language school on the Indonesian island of Java and 2 days later we left for the island of Borneo, where we will be living.  But, instead of flying directly to our home base in the city of PalangkaRaya we flew instead to another MAF base in the city of Tarakan, Eastern Borneo.  We are here for a week to meet the rest of our MAF Kalimantan (Borneo) team and get familiar with how things are done here.  

One of my days here I got to ride along with a long time MAF friend who is based in Tarakan.  We spent the majority of the day flying all over Eastern Kalimantan in the hot rod Quest Kodiak pictured above.  It is an impressive aircraft!

As with most anywhere MAF flies, children soon arrive at the airstrip shortly after we do.  They are always a pleasure to joke around with and are almost always full of laughs and smiles.