Last weekend was fantastic! Emma had meetings in Zomba (“big city” in the south) and Mangochi (right on Lake Malawi), and she took us with her. The drive took about 5 hours, but it was incredible. I finally saw the Africa that you see in the movies. For about 1/3 of the journey, Mozambique was to our right. Apparently the road was the border, so we had to stop at about 5 border town checkpoints. The landscape was incredible. You’d look to the right as the sun set behind the distant mountains and think it was the most amazing sight you’d ever seen, then you’d look left only to discover that the way the shadows and changing colors of the sky accentuated the hills and valleys of Malawi blew your mind. I tried to draw an
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