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- Traveler Again
- Catch Up, Chill Out - A Long Way From Lilongwe - The Malawian Feel - Tummy Aches - More Than Just A Lake - One Last Lake Day - Racing The Sun To Tanzania |
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April 21, 2004
Traveler AgainDAY 184: Some people travel to escape their boring routine lives at home. Some people, particularly a fair amount of the backpacker set, travel great distances only to travel pub to pub, club to club, and have "generic" experiences they...Read this entry April 29, 2004
Catch Up, Chill OutDAY 185: For my stayover in Malawi's capital city Lilongwe, I gave myself the day to figure out my plan of attack in the country, a day to just chill out and run the errands that I might not be...Read this entry A Long Way From LilongweDAY 186: Lilongwe, Malawi's capital city wasn't the reason why I came to the eastern African nation. While stoners may know Malawi for its "gold," the mainraison d'être is Lake Nyassa -- more commonly known as Lake Malawi -- the...Read this entry The Malawian FeelDAY 187: Lonely Planet says that people have described the vibe of Nkhata Bay as "Caribbean," yet still retaining a "Malawian feel." What this "feel" was I didn't know about prior to my arrival, but by the end of the...Read this entry Tummy AchesDAY 188: If you've kept up with The Blog since the beginning, you know that when I mention issues of the stomach I sometimes feature photos of my own diarrhea. Fans of these photos (as "sick" as they are) may...Read this entry More Than Just A LakeDAY 189: If you look at the cover of any recent Lonely Planet guidebook, you'll see that on the bottom they write a catchy subtitle relative to the destination that is being covered inside. For Malawi, the subtitle reads, "More...Read this entry One Last Lake DayDAY 190: It was up in the air whether or not I'd leave Nkhata Bay that Monday. What was also in the air was water because overnight and all morning, it poured like there was another lake hidden in the...Read this entry Racing The Sun To TanzaniaDAY 191: My goal of the day was to make it to the southern Tanzanian city of Mbeya, 120 km. north of the Malawian/Tanzanian border. I questioned whether or not I would make it before the sun went down so...Read this entry |