Day 83: Sunday, August 13: Nairobi to Arusha, Tanzania I met up with our truck, guide and most of the people on the tour. A lot of them have already been together for about 2 weeks, checking out the gurillas and Maasai Mara. There were 8 of us that are new and another 10 or so leaving in Zanzibar with 10 more joining up. So its a bit of a hop-on/hop-off kinda tour, which I think is okay because it just means a bunch of fresh new faces. Once on the road, I quickly learned about truck life. The roads are bad, potholes everywhere, if the road even really exists. The truck is slow and every time we pass a town or village, we have to slow down to a crawl for the speed bumps. 7
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