Monday, December 29, 2008

Blah. (Dec. 21/08 - Mombo, Tanzania)

Back to the early morning "grind" today. The wedding out our window went on till at least 2am, so getting up at 5am was not so easy. We took the first ferry back to Dar Es Salaam, which turned out to be a smaller monohull boat rather than the nice big catamarann we had on the way over. Drugged up on Gravol, most of us managed to sleep for the whole trip. Others of us (including me) had some much to close encounters with the barf bags. Ugh, not fun. Needless to say, we were pretty happy to see Raymond and the truck waiting for us on the other side 2 1/2 hours later. I felt like crap for the rest of the day, but at least the windy drive north of Dar was somewhat soothing. It was nice to get out of the city and back to the expansive sisal plantations, thatched hut villages, and fruit stands on the side of the road. We stopped at a campsite near the town of Mombo, and were oddly happy to be back to our tents, cold showers, and the nightly campfire.

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