Border to our new home

Our Bedroom and netting

Our new home with some neighbors passing by

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ENTERING TANZANIA AND TO HOME
We’re at the border and Holly, our host has a couple of friends that are immigration
officers. They are kind enough to help us with our visa’s. Holly, Pam and I head to a
cantina/bar. This is our first real experience of being in a business in Africa, other than
the hotel.
We’ve reached the border of Kenya and Tanzania as the sun is going down. This bar is
dark, and we’re of course the only whites, hey get used to it huh? We’re waiting there
because it seems it’s harder to get a car or van into Tanzania that it is for people to get
in. We wait in the bar and have a Coke. A real Coke, made with real sugar.
Finally after a half hour or so James our driver gets clearance and we’re off and down
the road only 10 minutes to our new home. We meet Cha Cha, the guard who is at the
house from dusk to dawn. The house is U shaped. You enter through a person gate built
into the courtyard gate. All made of iron or steel. The court yard is paved with brick and
there is a door to the left and right that go to separate housing units of 3 bedrooms
each. The way it is set up as a mission house is that there is only one kitchen, on the
left and it has the food storage and refrigerator there.
On the right is where Pam and I are, with a living room with two small couches, a coffee
table and a chair; a dining room with no furniture except a couple a few chairs, an empty
bedroom, another bedroom that is now my shop, and a master bedroom with a
bathroom.
Hello mosquito netting and hello choo (bathroom). The netting was expected, and Holly
said we would have a flush toilet, but it’s only about 9” above the floor. The other choo in
our side is a hole with cermanic around it. Both flush, but it took us while to figure out a
good technique to using a 9 inch high toilet. We are now in the process of trying to get a
raiser from the U.S.! I talked to the landlord and it seems this is a normal toilet, maybe a
little lower, but when the house was built, and this I’m not totally clear on, it seems they
set the toilet over the sewer opening and then cemented it in.
TIA Mark