Tagged: Michamvi

Michamvi to Stone Town, Zanzibar: Goodbye Full Package

Michamvi to Stone Town, Zanzibar: Goodbye Full Package

Michamvi to Stone Town, Zanzibar: Goodbye Full Package. Dec 26 If you want to save money when you travel, end up in a fling with an attractive woman who runs a restaurant.  That will really take care of some costs!  If she has a washing machine, you have basically achieved platinum status.  I have had a blast with this Ms. Tanzanian Pageant and she sure has taken care of me.  She did not even let me buy a single drink...

Michamvi Zanzibar: Merriment Awesomeness!

Michamvi Zanzibar: Merriment Awesomeness!

Michamvi Zanzibar: Merriment Awesomeness! Dec 25 I had a nice sleep in and went to see Ms. Tanzanian Pageant at her restaurant.  She was in a super fun mood full of Merriment.  She was about to cook us lunch, pointed to the blackness at the bottom of a large pot from a propane powered burner and said, “I look like here.”  Funny. Marc from Germany was out again today with Ms. Tanzanian Pageant’s sister.  I told Marc I will leave...

Michamvi Zanzibar: Empty Santa's Sack

Michamvi Zanzibar: Empty Santa’s Sack

Michamvi Zanzibar: Empty Santa’s Sack. Dec 24 Christmas already?  The Earth gets around the sun in a hurry! Spending Christmas day swimming in bathtub-warm turquoise blue waters is not such a bad way to spent the festive season.  In the later afternoon I went to hang around with Ms. Tanzanian Pageant at her restaurant/bar where I helped her to blow up balloons and hang Christmas decorations.  It is a white Christmas for me with perfect powder sand that makes everyone...

Michamvi Tanzania: The Good Life?

Michamvi Tanzania: The Good Life?

Michamvi Tanzania: The Good Life? Dec 23 Sometimes you do not realize you are caught up in The Good Life is until someone points it out to you.  Ms. Tanzanian Pageant’s sister’s German boyfriend was at the beach restaurant bar when I arrived today at 11:00.  He is in his 40’s and he said, “I look at your life and I think, wow.  You have it pretty good.  I am not sure if you could have gotten a better start...

Michamvi Zanzibar: Accidentally Smooth

Michamvi Zanzibar: Accidentally Smooth

Michamvi Zanzibar: Accidentally Smooth. Dec 22 People here in Zanzibar are not so tied to technology, so they are not so busy with nothing, yet, and they have time for other people.  Do you ever/always feel like there are not enough hours in the day?  There seems to be too many hours in the day here.  If you need to go somewhere to do something, and it will take you an hour to go there and back, but you do...

Michamvi Zanzibar: Beans vs Mashed

Michamvi Zanzibar: Beans vs Mashed

Michamvi Zanzibar: Beans vs Mashed. Dec 21 Ms. Tanzanian Pageant fed me lunch at her restaurant.  She came to my bungalow to get me in the afternoon to see if I wanted to meet her sister who had just arrived to see her.  Her sister was with a German man.  I guess they think outside of Tanzania…  But here is the thing: her sister was in a car accident three months ago.  She is still on crutches.  Her husband died...

Michamvi Zanzibar: Trouble with Two Women

Michamvi Zanzibar: Trouble with Two Women

Michamvi Zanzibar: Trouble with Two Women. Dec 20 Ms. Tanzanian Pageant, 25, really struggles with English in the morning.  She is good with the language during the day, but first thing in the morning is a lot of work…  What?  What?  What?  I don’t know? I went to see Ms. Tanzanian Pageant for lunch and gave her a Beatles shirt today that is too small for me and three extra pairs of socks that are taking up space in my...

Michamvi: The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar!

Michamvi: The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar!

Michamvi: The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar! Dec 19 There is The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar, close to where I am staying.  I caught a dola-dola, told the driver where I wanted to go, and he dropped me off after turning around twice on the road for some unknown reason.  This is Africa! I walked through a small village down to the beach, and there was the restaurant…  The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar, is a massive rock close to the shore...

Michamvi Zanzibar - Sing the Moment In

Michamvi Zanzibar – Sing the Moment In

Michamvi Zanzibar – Sing the Moment In. Dec 18 Ms. Tanzanian Pageant left at 07:00 and I slept again until 09:30.  She showed up again at 10:30, and invited me for breakfast at her restaurant in Michamvi Zanzibar.  I told her that I would just head into the village to eat, but she said she had already prepared it.  She has been on me about not eating.  I eat, but I guess she is not used to someone who only...

Michamvi Zanzibar: Little Ms Tanzania Pageant

Michamvi Zanzibar: Little Ms Tanzania Pageant

Michamvi Zanzibar: Little Ms Tanzania Pageant. Dec 17 I no longer like the energy at Nungwi, as I felt my own was being sucked out of me by the beach boys hassling me, so I pulled the plug and hit the road today. I caught a dola-dola to Stone Town.  A Portuguese girl was in the front seat inside of the truck and the middle was free, so I rode down in luxury inside of the vehicle until we picked...