TAN: Farewell to Mufindi

Up for a 7:30 a.m. departure. We had to be in Mafinga at 8:30 a.m. to ensure we didn’t miss the Scandinavian bus back to Dar es Salaam. We were all intently looking at the license plates for the right bus. A different Scandinavian bus came through and Geoff’s enquiries about the Dar bus were met with a reply of it is coming just now. Our experience with “just now” has been spotty at best. There are varying shades of just now from “just now” to “just now, now”. The bus arrived in the “just now” timeframe, about an hour later. We loaded our gear and bid goodbye to Geoff. We were all quite sad to be parting.

A last view of misty Mufindi. The bus depot in Mafinga.

Gabe thought the guy in the back sound asleep with no shirt was a riot. A roadside market.

Our eight hour bus journey set off at 11 a.m. Gabriel, Julie and I tried to get some work done in the cramped quarters of our seats. There was some fantastic en route entertainment in the form of a TV at the front of the bus. In the couse of our trip we were subjected to a Thai action film, Delta Force with Chuck Norris and The Tuxedo with Jackie Chan. We had a pit stop just after the Iringa pass and another in Morogoro. The bus finally arrived in Dar around 7 p.m. Got a cab back to Micocheni where we met up with Maina. I was still furiously at work getting the DVD layed out. Gabe and Maina got some take-out Indian for dinner.