Background: Shortly after independence, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and popular opposition have led to two contentious elections since 1995, which the ruling party won despite international observers' claims of voting irregularities.
May 7th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi As a disclaimer, I managed to find the only disfunctional keyboard in the internet cafe, so please excuse creative punctuation and spelling - some keys are missing or not working. The shift key is al ... [full story]
May 5th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Greetings, Grace and Peace, to each of you. I know that this report is finding you a day later than normal, after two weeks of dealing with the internet company, we have had to settle for the fact tha ... [full story]
May 4th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Hi everyone. just to let you know that i got back safely for the people who are obviously interested. sorry if you are not but this is the easiest way to get in touch with people.
i will keep in to ... [full story]
May 2nd 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Today Julie and I got up and decided to go into town, just the two of us. We needed to get some groceries and run some errands. So we went by the grocery store and then we drove around Moshi for abou ... 49 photos[full story]
April 30th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha I totally forgot to tell you in the blog I just sent out that we are switching to GMAIL. We will be keeping the AOL email up and running for a while until everyone gets the new one on their computers ... [full story]
April 30th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha Someone asked me yesterday, “When was the last time you sent out a blog?” I had to think, but then realized it was almost a month ago. So, sorry guys!!! I have fallen down on my job of ... 20 photos[full story]
April 29th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Today started off with Anthony and Shasta Brown and Sean Hochdorf coming over to the house. They brought some wood from Arusha for Brent to cut with his new tools, so they could build some shelve ... 31 photos[full story]
April 29th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha Dearest Brethren,
I thought it might be time to update my blog! Until now, internet for us has been very hit or miss. However, I believe we have the bugs worked out and it will be a little more relia ... [full story]
April 27th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Wow! I can hardly believe that it has been a month since I made a post on our travelblog. We have been so busy, it has been hard to find the time to stop and think and write.
Some of happenings ... 24 photos[full story]
July 18th 2007Africa » Tanzania » North » Serengeti National Park The site hosting these blogs suffered some form of cyber attack and lost some of its content, I am not about to retype the safari entry (although it was by far my favorite) but I am reposting some of ... 9 photos[full story]
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