Posts Tagged as ‘Mbeya’

November 13, 2008

“Is a hot dog made of meat?”

For our second night in a row, my friend and I walked into a restaurant by the name of Babukubwa’s (“Big Grandpa’s”) in a small town in Tanzania. As we sat down, I saw to my left a local man happily devouring a hot dog and chips. A hot dog! How amazing! I hadn’t seen [...]

November 6, 2008

We Did It For the Journey, Not the Destination

When my guidebook said that it was possible to take a daladala to Kyimo and rent a bike there to ride the 11k to the Bridge of God, it should have mentioned that the bike would be circa 1953 and that the entirety of the 11k would be dirt road with a mixture of small [...]