Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 9

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 9

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We “showered” this morning with a bucket of hot water provided by our host. It was not the Ritz but it was fancier that I imagined with indoor plumbing (although only cold [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 8

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 8

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The fish Jackie ate seemed to make her sick when she woke up. I woke at 6:30, grabbed a shower and some breakfast and then listened to some of the audio that [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 7

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 7

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I woke up at 5:30am again but that gave me an hour before breakfast to finish my internet time at the Equator ($3/hour). We ate breakfast at 7am and got on a [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 6

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 6

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I am getting closer to this timezone. I woke up at 5:30am. I used that time to charge some more of my electronics, backup my photos and work on a video edition [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 5

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 5

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I am not as adjusted to this time-zone as I thought. I woke up at 3:30am and did not sleep much after that point. It could be because that is when Jack, [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 4

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 4

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I managed to sleep well until 5:30am at which point I was slept out. After trying to sleep for another half hour I succumbed to consciousness and caught up on some of [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 3

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 3

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When we got to Kenya we were somewhat uncertain where to go but someone who we think may have been a private business man collected our luggage tags and went down to [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 2

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 2

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Mid-flight Loretta realized that her fanny pack with her credit card, ATM card and other things had probably been left at a store in the SFO airport. We tackled the Heathrow airport [...]

Tanzania, Africa travel journal – day 1

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Eight of our group met at church and carpooled up to San Francisco. We met Carol and Jack at the airport, the missing two members of the group. There was quite a [...]

Travel-time Maps

Travel-time Maps

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mysociety.org has an interesting article about travel-time maps: Transport maps and timetables help people work out how to get from A to B using buses, trains and other forms of public transport. [...]