Into Tanzania...

We woke up dry & warm in max - what a relief! After paying our bills and looking at the batteries which were still dead, we headed into town for some grocery shopping. Actually just before this Chris (jungle junction) said we should definately head into tanzania via arusha rather than mombassa.

After a delicious breakfast at Junction Java Coffee House we started south toward the border. 6 months ago the road was being built by chinese contractors and it took us a painful 7 hours or more to do the 275kms between nairobi & arusha... This time we got to drive on a lot of the newly built road with much fewer and shorter detours, so we managed to get past Arusha and to Moshi (Honey Badger Campsite) just after dark ... A measly 350km in around 7 hours, but a lot of that was bad road and included a border crossing.

This evening we fiddled with the electrics a bit (after charging the house batteries on the truck alternator for the whole day) and on one combination of the charger & inverter on we suddenly got full power! So we have lights - which is great, and so we have mossies too (not that great!).

Our poor new / old coffee machine exploded again in the shower (not literally, but all in pieces). Actually there were a few more pieces than normal this time .. I managed to put everything together (except two interesting looking pieces) and when i made a cup of coffee it spat the dry gound coffee into the waste section, and poured hot water into the overflow tray...

So i took off the side cover again and fitted one small piece back again - which really had nothing to do with the water, just a clear plastic cover over some wires, and tried again! This time it worked! Weak, luke warm coffee ... But it did work!!

So when we take it back to the dealer with its cracks, smashes and bashes, i can say: "it doesnt sound like its working properly - could you please check it out and give it a bit of a service?"

Tomorrow we're going to try drive 700km past dar es salaam and to a campsite there at a place called something like iyaki (?). Thats going to be a loooooong day!

My biggest worry is not really being insured for this section ... We cldnt find someone to by a comesa from (3rd party) for which we'll probably be fined, and i think my normal insurance only kicks back in in zambia ... Or maybe only namibia! So we'll be driving carefully.