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2007 Uganda-Tanzania

• 2006 Vietnam, 2007 Cuba, 2007 Egypt-Jordan, 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  shave and a haircut: two đồng / pesos / pounds / shillings

  07.10.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Getting your hair cut in foreign countries where you don’t know the local way to say “short on the sides, long on top” can be a pretty harrowing experience. Incorrect pronunciation or insufficiently illustrative hand-gestures could lead to a long night of searching for MC Hammer pants to go with your new Kid ‘n [...]

• 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  reflections from a Superman Digital World

  06.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’ve spent a lot of time in the last few weeks driving around East Africa. Lots of time to reflect on just how great (and how relatively unexciting) the Oak Street Bridge is after a few freeze-thaw cycles compared to a normal day driving here.
  Roads
  First of all, be grateful [...]

• 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  no one knows me here, and it’s pouring anyway, so I think I’ll have a little pee

  06.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Our planned road trip into Tanzania was scuttled when we found out the roads after the rainy season in the western part of Tanzania aren’t so good, which would have meant 12 hours on a ferry and another 12 hours of 4×4 mogulling with attendant retching. That and the border areas between Burundi and [...]

• 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  safari #1: when elephants (almost) attack

  05.26.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  We got back from our first safari last night: all the way out to the western tip of Uganda, spitting distance from Rwanda and the DR Congo and all their associated troubled histories. Several tourists were kidnapped in the area a few years ago, but I think things have calmed down a bit now, [...]

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