Hello everyone,

Today we are riding a bus back to DAR.  We have booked a set on the “High Class Bus”.  This has assigned seating and Ray and I got the last two seats they said.  We are up front right at the door.  Great for watching the traffic and people.

We now have three big suitcases and our backpacks that we are taking back to DAR, a lot of stuff. 

While we are waiting on the bus to leave the gathering area, a minivan pulls up from a town that is 2.5 hours away.  The van in the USA would be an eight passenger van.  They have modified the seating some.  It has seating for 13 people but I counted 25 people that got out of that van.  Imagine riding with 25 people for 2.5 hours in that van.  It makes me tired.

We are setting in the front seats and there is the steps that lead up to the seating area and the flat area between the steps and the driver.  Why is that important.  Well we start off and there are three men in the area who are the managers of the ride.   I actually think we took their seats.  Pastor Kiwanga has a lot of pull..   So we started with three people in this area but before we had made two stops there were 8 people in this area.  When we arrived in Morogoro a little over half way back we unloaded some passengers and added some new ones which left only 5 people in the front area.

A new passenger was a young man that spoke some English and he was a talker and becoming a good con-man.  He was “my friend” immediately and wanted to know my name, phone number and where we were staying.  He wanted me to sponsor him to the USA because life is hard in Tanzania and live is easy in the USA.  I told him it was probably the other way around.   Anyway it was fun to banter with him for the next two hours or so.

We arrived at the bus area in DAR.  Wow, I say that a lot but Wow.  There were lots of people, buses and taxis.   We negotiated a ride to the Cefa Hostel.

We have a dinner arrangement with Tom Dixon a man that works with a Danish company that gives money away.  What a job.  He has been in TZ for 10 years and has almost raised his family.  His oldest daughter is going to be going to USA for college next year and he has a farm in Costa Rica where his family is living now.  He is going there for Christmas.  

We had pizza at the place I talked about earlier and it was good again.

Wednesday is a national holiday in TZ and we will be working in the room getting ready for the upcoming meetings and catching up on updates and emails.  I will skip tomorrow unless something exciting happens and update you on Thursday

God bless you all

Russ Myers

Vice President Development

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