T.I.A=This is Africa - journey out of

Looking back on the last 72 hours of chicken busses, buses, taxis, and cars, I guess I can only laugh at the bad luck and focus on the good. It took us about three days to travel from Malawi's Nkhata Bay to the capital of Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam and it entailed a total rollercoaster of really bad luck, followed by really good luck in our never ending journey overland. I only have about 4 minutes online here so I will give a very brief overview and save the details (which there are some good ones) for another time.

Ran with backpack to border post in the dark after sharing a long bus ride out of Malawi with chickens, children, cabbage, etc, it was closed, immigration man opened it up specially for us, ran out of money for visa fee, immigration man's friend sold us money on black market in back of customs office in the dark, taxi tried ripping us off, immigration man called friend to give us lift, bank was closed/atm not working in the morning, couldn't pay for bus into Tanzania, stayed one night for $2, got bus, bought ticket for second bus, second bus didn't exist - totally ripped off, yelled at people who sold us ticket, they found a random car going our direction - instead of 20hr bus ride=7 hour private car, car ran out of gas, no fuel existing in gas stations, found bus, made it here!!!! lol TIA = this is africa.

Happy in Dar, going to island of Zanzibar tomorrow. Off to market to find some cheap new/used clothes now, then back to lodge to watch CNN and hopefully see the election news!