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Dar Es Salaam to Moshi: The Long Ride North

Dar Es Salaam to Moshi: The Long Ride North

Dar Es Salaam to Moshi: The Long Ride North. Dec 29 It can really screw you up when your phone loses track of time because it is so dead, and you allow it to set itself according to the mobile network you are using.  Then when you set your alarm for 05:20 to get to the buses early and everyone else is getting up at the same time it is really confusing.  Then you find a clock on the wall...

Cusco: My Tourist Hell

Cusco: My Tourist Hell

Cusco: My Tourist Hell. May 28. Construction workers were hard at it this morning and had us awake a lot earlier than we would have liked to have been.  It was noon when we finally left the hostel and the workers were sitting out on the sidewalk drinking beer with their lunch.  That-a-be fellas… Cusco is the kind of place were women in traditional clothing walk around with small lambs sit in purses and peer out at the world while...

bus ride to Asunción

Villarrica to Asunción – Bus Ride to Asunción

March 26. My day started with a questionable stomach, I developed a crush on a sweetheart waitress, and we decided to get out of town.  So, we went to check on Gustavo, a rocker who we met last night who was going to try to get his hands on a Paraguay licence plate for me, but his buddy did not come through.  I thought Gustavo was a super cool guy, but Irmante told me that she got a bad vibe...