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Travel Stories in a Pandemic and dealing with Quarantine

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I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic.  Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed.  I am also going to talk about what I am doing now that I am at home and in self imposed quarantine before I go to stay at my folks home.  I am also going to ask for your help to decide what I should be doing on the blog during what will be an extended break. Let's start with what was happening in Tanzania before I left.  The government had encouraged people not to gather in large groups and given some basic guidance along those lines.  They closed all school and  universities.  They required everyone coming in to Tanzania to go into a 14 day quarantine at a place the government set up.  This meant expensive type hotels that many of the Tanzanians returning after being overseas could not afford.  The government howev...

Tiny House Tanzania Episode 2, Washing Clothes and 10,000 visits

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Jambo, Thank you all for helping reach a milestone with the blog.  With last week's blog I have topped 10,000 visits.  It seems a lot of  people liked last weeks blog about the house. I am continuing the discussion on the house work this week with Episode 2: Planning the work of Tiny House Tanzania.  Please remember to check out the inspiration for many of the ideas and for the video blog of the work at Tiny House Nation on the FYI Network or online at  http://www.fyi.tv/shows/tiny-house-nation The episode this week is pretty much all about planning the work to be done and discussing what I will be doing.  Since this week is not a lot of action on site, I am including a separate video of the process to wash clothes on site.   As mentioned in the video, I want to give a shout out to my hardware guy who helps me find all my materials in Tanzania.  His name is John. Here is this week's episode, if you have trouble seeing it in the blog you...