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Mombasa Nairobi

All aboard!

I absolutely loved the train ride from Mombasa to Nairobi last week.  It was a charming and relaxing alternative to the bus.  It takes longer—12 hours instead of 8—but since I spent most of that time sleeping in a bed, I could find no reason for complaint. Here’s the station prior to departure: Here’s my […]

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Nairobi

Downtime

(And not the vacation kind.) Apparently my web hosting provider, HostMonster, has started enforcing a new rule regarding number of files allowed in their Unlimited Hosting Plan.  The new limit is 50,000 files, but I apparently had over 200,000, most of which were files created automatically by the image gallery that Hostmonster recommended for me, […]

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Zanzibar

Zanzibar!

A group of five of us traveled together to Zanzibar for the week right after the Mombasa CST.  I think the flight was under an hour, although the visa process was slow.  I was annoyed to see that my visa which I got in advance from the Tanzanian Consulate was only good for six months, […]