Passing through... We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves--Pico Iyer---Passing through from Europe to Africa to Asia to Oceania etc.& back again! 9 mos. of dreaming and exploring!

So far the food here has not caused me any problems. My mom called the other day and was very curious what we were eating here. She happened to call me after I had made some rice and vegetable stir fry so I told her about that. The food here is nothing exciting. It doesn’t excite my taste buds but we get as creative as we can. We buy fresh vegatables and fruit from the local market- eggplant, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, onions, mango, etc and mix these ingredients with rice or pasta. Or we eat at the canteen (ie. Cafeteria) and that involves meat and rice and sometimes veggies. We get some good butter and cheese from a local women’s cooperative group –women who are widowed have set up their own dairy store ---the gouda cheese they make is very good! We don’t buy our own meat to cook because the only meat that we can buy are from local butchery’s where the meat just hangs outside the store—not a very sanitary picture. So we are almost vegetarians this month :P Otherwise, we picked up a few more items from the grocery store in Moshi like olive oil, tomato paste, chickpeas, nutella spread, tuna and coffee. I haven’t had any bowel troubles as of yet, but we make sure to drink bottled water only and cook most things to make sure its safe. The tap water around Mt. Kilimanjaro is supposed to be safe to drink because it comes from streams high up on the mountain, but we stick with bottled water anyways.