Quick summary: I left France on February 28th for Tanzania. A longtime friend of mine has been living in Tanzania off and on for a few years and I finally got the chance to see his life. I started my trip with a bootleg safari in Mikumi Town, 3 hours west of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Following Mikumi, Toby and I hiked the mountains outside of Morogoro, just east of Mikumi where Toby has a couple friends. We had a very similar experience to hiking mountains in rural france, eating lunch in homes and walking all over the damn place. It was surprising and encouraging to find people living so similarly to me in the mountains of Tanzania. The only major difference being the intense heat. Following Morogoro, we took a bus back to Dar and a ferry to Zanzibar where we spent quality time watching the ocean from a cabana on the beach. Zanzibar was the icing on my african cake.

I put up a ton of photos in the last day from the end of france through my adventure in Tanzania. Check them out here: http://picasaweb.google.com/zigelbaum

Living abroad has most certainly changed my perspective on life back home. I think my next life research needs to focus on rural living in the US, see if that life is what I hope it is. Traveling has been a blast, but I’m weary and ready to come back to the comforts of home and the rest of my life, one day at a time.