Hotel Travertine
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On To Dar es Salaam
... seemingly endless Sahara Desert during daylight. What a sight! At 7:30 PM (October 19th) we land at Kilimanjaro. The plane is refueled and we fly another 45 minutes to Dar es Salaam. Our trip takes 32 hours, including 8 time zone changes.
With our visas in hand we pass quickly through Tanzanian Immigrations. We exit Customs and see Anderson from Nomad Safaris waiting. He helps us to his vehicle and off we go to the Southern Sun Hotel. ...
Riots in Stone Town & Tuk-Tuk Wacky Races at Dar
... beach and slept off some of the sweats from the suspected tonsillitis we both seemed to have picked up on Zanzibar. Vikki looked in Paula's mouth and commented that her left tonsil looked like a testicle. How we laughed, despite our sore throats and swollen tonsils.
After dinner we played Scrabble (Scrabble?!) over a couple of cocktails and then sent ourselves to bed early - longest journey of the trip is scheduled for tomorrow and a disgustingly early ...
Out of Africa
... hot water. You know you’ve been in Africa too long whenever a hot (as opposed to generally tepid) shower is uncomfortable and you have to turn down the temperature. Because I’ve bid farewell to some random things thus far I’ll take this as an opportunity to bid farewell to all the things that served me well on this trip that didn’t make the final pack out: it’s been a pleasure serving with you 2 tubes of sunscreen, bottle of ...
TIA
... hanging them up on the window bars to dry and rolling into bed. I should probably be putting down the mosquito (“mozzie”, per Katie) net and spraying myself before bed but honestly I’ve seen like 2 of the critters since I’ve been here. It’s just too cold for them in the evenings. Sleeping inside a net is just a bit of a bother, so until I see the need to do otherwise I’m going to be presenting myself as a big fat blood sack to ...
Black-Out
... of one another when everyone has a different plan, focus and understanding of the way things work or should work here. I really hope the research I do over the next few weeks can help me answer these questions.
Recovery
Being in the state I was and with my room at Q Bar almost becoming a functioning toilet, we decided I would move into Jacob's house. It was pretty much empty, with Anna leaving the next day. We managed to talk to the Q Bar manager and he ...
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