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Challenge Day 226

226. Admiration: Is there someone you admire? Write about those feelings. This prompt is similar to Challenge Day 19, a long time ago. Who do I admire? I admire my mom, grandmother, sister, aunt, and godmother. They give me models of how to move through the world and how to be a strong woman. I […]

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Zanzibar

From South Africa, we changed planes three times to get to Tanzania and upon arrival, we discovered that our luggage was never loaded at Johannesburg. Thank you Apple Air Tag. The only thing I was missing was my toiletry bag so I made do. We walked around and had dinner at place recommended by the

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South Africa

After we crossed the border into South Africa, we saw a huge troop of baboons and it felt prescient to future visual treats. We stayed at the Hollywood lodge, a 100 year-old house with no signage, locked gate, and an extremely generous 7.0 rating on booking.com. The room door wouldn’t open from the inside so

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Tjongololo’s Box

At the Canyon Roadhouse, close to the Fish River Canyon in southern Namibia, the woman’s bathroom sports a giant mural of a gorgeous man. A box nailed to the wall over his genitals, labeled Tjongololo’s Box, had a little door with a handle a note that warned that no one should ever open the box.

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Namibia

The sky was yellow as we landed in Windhoek and quickly picked up our VW Polo from the rental agency. There were baboons on side of road outside Windhoek and I was struck by how flat the landscape was and how similar it was to a CA desert. We didn’t have the correct plug adapter

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