Eating mangoes in Dar
We’re finally in Dar es Salaam and, despite the heat, we’re leaving no street unexplored! The road from Mbeya to Dar is long, and we apparently picked the wrong bus, because it took over fourteen hours to get here (damn, do we really need petrol again, for the third time?). It was kinda unnerving to [...]
Malawi is beautiful
Randi and I finally got out of Morogoro, and wow, Malawi is beautiful! Also, as it turns out, being stuck in Morogoro for a few extra days wasn’t as bad as we thought it was going to be. Our initial impression was so bad because the town is hot, dry and dusty. To its credit, [...]
Stuck in Morogoro
We set out from Nairobi on December 22nd at a breakneck pace (our sights are on Malawi, and we have two weeks to get there and back… by bus)! It’s really far, but we’ve been to most of the cities in between before, so it doesn’t matter if we blow right through them. Other than [...]
San Diego safari
I cracked up this morning when I heard on the news that San Diego Zoo’s “Wild Animal Park” is going to change its name to the San Diego Zoo “Safari Park.” It’s hilarious to me because in Swahili a “safari” is a journey; sure, driving around looking at animals is technically a journey, but really [...]
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