Couchfish Day 341: Lime, Salt and Spice Make Everything Nice

Lake Toba’s Samosir Island is one of those peculiar geographic anomalies you encounter now and then. It’s an island in a lake in an island in an ocean. I plan to add another level to that, but I’ll get to that tomorrow.

I’d originally planned to ride around the island in a day, but after chatting to my guesthouse owner, I rethink. It’s possible, he says,…