Category: Travel Adventures
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Tanzania Tales – Part 3 – Rural School Visit, Arusha Market, Food to a Village, and boda bodas!
(August 2020; From my journals. Part 3 of 5, Africa in a pandemic and during the divorce) Tanzania Tales – Part 2 – Kikipeo Beach, Moshi, a Banana Bar and the Coffee Boys(Opens in a new browser tab) (previous post) The Rural School Visit One of the most humbling, moving experiences. Met a hero of…
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Tanzania Tales – Part 2 – Kikipeo Beach, Moshi, a Banana Bar and the Coffee Boys
August 2020 (Africa Adventure during a pandemic … and a divorce!) Post 2 of 5 Tanzania Tales – Part 1(Opens in a new browser tab) (previous post) Kikipeo Beach, South of Dar es Salaam After long ferry travel day, we relaxed at the beach bar and made new friends, with local Solomon, and Dutch girl…
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Tanzania Tales Part 5 – The Maasai people
(Final post from the Journals of the Tanzania portion during a pandemic and a divorce.) During the amazing Serengeti safari we had the pleasure and honor to interact with a Maasai tribe and a few we met along the way asking for water. We were invited into the living quarters of one of their huts.…
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Tanzania Tales – Part 1
Take off! California to Zanzibar! (Later Dar es Salaam with stops in Nungwi and Mnemba Island) (From my journals… After being locked down since March 2020, and unable to see my son who was living in Ireland, I decided with a week’s notice to fly to Zanzibar to meet him and his girlfriend. This decision…
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 6 – A Local Wedding
(September 2020, from my journals. Last post of Africa, mid-Pandemic, mid-divorce.) See previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/04/03/zanzibar-dreams-part-5-the-music-video-and-a-dhow-to-nakupenda-island/ https://www.expedia.com/shop/second-chapter-nomad/africa (small commission if booked through me) Dress Shopping for Wedding When your hotel housekeeper invites you to her sister’s Muslim Zanzibar wedding, you have one of your favorite waiters from your hotel (Is-Hak, same one who took me on…