December 2010
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One final note...
For any interested, I’ve finally been able to upload and organize ALL of my Africa photos onto flickr. Click here to see the whole collection.
I’ll also be sporadically posting some of my favorites on my new blog sarahinsanfrancisco, along with pictures from my other travels, stories, amusing San Francisco related activities, my polaroid and 35mm photography experiments, sex and...
November 2010
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My Final Goodbye
Hello all you wonderful sarahinafrica followers. I’ve really enjoyed sharing my journey with you, so thanks for following along. I finally got my stuff together and finished my new sarahinsanfrancisco blog setup (after a few hiccups) and would love to continue sharing my stories, travels, and experiences with you there. It’s San Francisco themed, but I have a feeling I’ll be...
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My New Project
Forgive my lack of posts. While most of the final stories have been written and pictures are all edited, I have been distracted by both 1) life and 2) getting my new, more current blog, up and running.
I’ve been looking for a way to continue my presence in the blog-sphere as sarahinafrica is slowly running out, and decided that, due to the prominence of New York blogs on tumblr (I’m...
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October 2010
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The Cruise
I haven’t written a story in a while, so I figure it’s time to balance out that side of my tumblr. And in fact I haven’t really written any stories about Egypt at all (besides the ridiculous Egyptian Train Party one), so it’s about time I tell those tales.
So I’ll start with the cruise, which to be honest was a very much needed back and fourth between air...
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fuckyeahexistentialism:
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect...
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Lessons (re)Learned
It’s surprising how quickly one can fall back into the routine of comfort and high expectations that home provides. Of warm showers and constant meals and clean clothes and a comfy bed.
It’s also surprising to realize that just because you’ve “learned” something, per-say, that doesn’t mean it’s forever ingrained on your consciousness, impossible to...
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September 2010
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive....”
– Howard Thurman (via esckapist)
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The Day We Lost Robb
I decided I’m going to write about a story my cousins and I agreed we wouldn’t mention until we returned to the US, for fear of parental freak-out (or something along those lines). But now that we’re back, I’m happy to say it’s fair game - in my mind anyway.
To set the scene: we’re back in Cape Town at the beginning of our journey. Pat has just arrived the day...
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tzusanna asked: Have you read Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux? If you've never heard of him, he is an AMAZING travel writer. He spent a few years in Africa during the 60s in the Peace Corps and returned decades later to travel through the places he lived. Dark Star Safari is about that trip. You should definitely pick it up when you have a chance.
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...they do things differently there.: Paused →
Beautifully put from another world traveler, and sentiments I very much identified with myself on my own journey. I hope your bed in Berlin brings you some much needed (I assume) stability, at least for a little while.
theydothingsdifferentlythere:
Arriving in Berlin last night on the bus from Prague felt like coming home. I’ve been constantly on the move for 9 months now. Packing, unpacking,...
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Why I have not posted...
Hello all, it’s been a while. The reasons are numerous, not least of which is the validity of my posting about current events (i.e. my life in America) on a blog titled “Sarah in Africa”. But after much deliberation I decided that, well, I didn’t care. But more importantly, perhaps, is the fact that while I am physically no longer on the continent of Africa the lessons I...
August 2010
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Two days and no bed; Egypt bound
Aug 2-4
Long overdue, but here’s a picture of the three of us with the Beast shortly before we dropped him off and said goodbye for good. A sad day for all involved.
This picture was actually taken at our campsite in the Masai Mara in what was, in retrospect, a wonderful calm before the storm of the next few days to follow. A manageable storm, mind you, but definitely a challenging...
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Travel withdrawals
Alright alright I admit, I’ve been lazy. And jet-lagged. And time-warped. And trying to face real life again. And uploading 5 million pictures at once. But that’s no excuse, right? Maaybe.
But as I’m getting up the courage and stamina to post the last few stories and videos that I have from my Africa road trip, I wanted to take a second to recommend some other amazing blogs...
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Accidental Nairobi
July 29-30
Pat, Robb and I, after leaving the Simpsons in Zanzibar, spent one last evening in Dar es Salaam before making our journey up and out of Tanzania. Originally we wanted to pass through the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, but a series of events led us to the decision that just doing the Masai Mara in Kenya (which is really just the top part of the Serengeti/Savannah plains) would be...
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Anonymous asked: are you in chicago in your traveler info pic?!
just wondering :] love the blog, would love to do somthing similar. keep it up!!
just wondering :] love the blog, would love to do somthing similar. keep it up!!
A quirk of travelling.
tinyflowingcurrents:
I have one particular shirt that smells so bad it has done a full revolution on the smell-o-scale and now has a quite pleasant scent, kind of like honey.
Truuuueee story.
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Trouble at the Safari Inn
Perhaps the most ridiculous story to come out of too-short time in Dar es Salaam was at the, in our minds anyway, infamous Safari Inn.
Arriving very late in Dar the next day after Makambako, the five of us were grumpy, hungry, sweaty, and all other things that come from being in a car and traffic for three hours more than you had originally intended. Of course this means that every...
Anonymous asked: Africa has the reputation for being a "scary" place. It sounds like you are having the time of your life but has there been any instances where you have been afraid?
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Real Time Update
In Cairo now after a red-eye flight from Nairobi and killing time before we hop on our 12 hour train ride to Aswan to then catch our cruise back up the Nile to spend five more days in Cairo before heading home.
*deep breath*
In that short time period the airlines had managed to lose Pat and Robb’s bags, we had to find our way to the train station and run around to ten different counters in...
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Bribes and a Thai Lodge in Tanzania
July 23
Hello everyone… This is Robb and I’m filling in for Sarah on this post, continuing on where she left off:
Leaving Nkhata Bay was very difficult for all of us as it was a wondrously beautiful place and the Backpackers we stayed at was owned by a wonderful couple. Not to mention Malawi was by far my favorite of the countries we had been to at that point. But as they say all...
July 2010
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Going M.I.A. again
While I’d love to continue trying to update the story through Tanzania, whatever I have left will have to be put on hold for a bit.
Tomorrow the three of us will be heading up to the Masai Mara, the park in Kenya connected to the Serengeti. Originally we wanted to do both parks, but a series of situations have caused us to make the choice to do only one (the great migration has almost all...
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Paradise (a.k.a. Malawi pt. 2)
July 21-22
A good introduction to the beauty that was Nkhata Bay in Malawi is perhaps to say that, once we pulled into our backpackers in the small village along the lake the three of us looked at each other in awe, immediately and simultaneously deciding we were staying an extra day no matter what we would have to do to make that happen.
And you can see why.
The lodge was right on the...
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Malawi pt. 1
July 20
Where do I begin? Probably by saying that once the three of us crossed over the border from Zambia into Malawi an overwhelming sense of happiness surrounded us, enveloping us during our time there and following us almost all the way back out (a failed bribe attempt by a police officer on our way to Tanzania put a bit of a damper on that… he tried to “fine” us for not...