Jennifer Lesher's Blog, page 19
November 20, 2013
More Postcards From the Hangar
Wow, time flies. Kind of like the airplanes at my school don’t. It’s hard for me to believe this, but I am one final exam away from completing my third quarter of airplane mechanic school. Here are some of the things I have learned in the past 2 months. You can store hydraulic pressure up […]
November 13, 2013
A Story About an Amazing Thing I Saw With Birds
This story doesn’t have a life lesson, or a clear narrative, or really any point at all, except that I saw a birds being amazing and I want to share it. Also I’m a little burned out on writing about Africa. I was at Seatac Airport, planespotting at the south end of the runway. The […]
November 6, 2013
Africa Overland – Part X: Into Malawi
At the end of the last installment we had successfully fended off a pack of currency exchange jackals, just on the Tanzania side of the border at Songwe. Next stop, the border crossing, which we hoped to clear before closing time so we wouldn’t have to spend the night in the car. By this time […]
October 30, 2013
In Honor of NaNoWriMo
Back in the days when I did NaNoWriMo yearly I developed a strategy that helped me keep writing when my ideas dried up: two characters, the writer and the therapist. They got together whenever I needed to just do some stream of consciousness writing. In honor of NaNo, which starts Friday, November 1, I present the best […]
October 23, 2013
Africa Overland – Part IX: Last day in Tanzania
At the end of our last installment, we were ready to depart the Utengule Coffee Lodge with plans to cross into Malawi at Songwe before nightfall. We passed through Mbeya on our way south. As a trade route city, Mbeya has a very transient population, and a surfeit of squalor, so we didn’t linger. You’ll […]
October 16, 2013
Africa Overland – Part VIII: Lodging at the Coffee Plantation
At the end of our last installment, we had just experienced our first checkpoint bribe, as we traveled from Itigi to Mbeya. As we drove south we went from red-dirt lowlands to alpine terrain and passed through the highest point in Tanzania served by trunk roads – though obviously not the highest point in Tanzania […]
