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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...
Nungwi to Kedwa Zanzibar: Long Walks on the Beach. Dec 16 It was time to see something as I feel like I am living in a beach corner of the world, so I went for about t three hour walk today. I find walking along the beach to be very meditative. I can iron out some things in my mind that are eating me. I need to get out of here. I talked to Mark in Taiwan last night and...
Nungwi Zanzibar: Chalk the White Guy. Dec 15 It rained here today. And it rained a lot. It rained all through the night with crazy thunder that woke me at 07:00 and then it rained all day into the afternoon. There is a lot of water laying everywhere. The village is nothing but puddles. But it is hot, and it is so nice to be here. It is no problem to handle rain in the heat! I went for a...
Nungwi Zanzibar: A Head of Exotic Follicles. Dec 14 As I went for a walk, I heard a local girl say hello to me from a great distance. I could just see that she was wearing an orange dress. I was gone for about an hour and when I came back, she was sitting with a couple of local gentlemen on a step close to where my guesthouse is located. As I came by, she was saying hello again and...
Nungwi Zanzibar: Mr. HQP. Dec 13 I woke up at lunch and went to the beach at Nungwi Zanzibar for the afternoon. I spent a couple of hours laying in a hammock watching the tide come in and out and then went to sit in the sand. A local tout came and asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in a boat for the afternoon. I told him about my night last night. He had big eyes...
Dec 12 I was tired, but I got up in time for the guesthouse breakfast in Nungwi, Zanzibar. It is a free meal, and I need to think about money more than sleep. As I was eating, James, my Tanzanian friend, came to find me to tell me that he had been at the fish-market this morning and he talked with one of his friends who said that they would take me out on the fishing boat to work with...
Stone Town to Nungwi – Worlds Last Open Slave Market. Dec 11 Free guesthouse breakfast, check-out, and head to the Anglican Christ Chruch Cathedral which is the former site of the worlds last open slave market. Legend has it that that alter of the church now sits above a tree where slaves were whipped to show their strength and hardness. There are holding cells for the males and for the females under the church. Slaves from central and east African...
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