We finally have our car, and it was worth the wait. It’s 15 years old, but it turned out to be in better shape than I expected. It looks and runs like it’s only 4 or 5 years old. I don’t know anything about the previous owners other than they were Japanese, but they only drove it 90,000 kilometers (about 55,000 miles) over the 15 years, and they obviously took excellent care of it. Here are a couple of pictures of us with the car (from our Ruaha Safari in October, since I’m cheating and writing this at the end of October, but dating it right after we got the car…)

Greg and I took the bus to Dar Es Salaam on Friday and picked up the car at MAF late in the afternoon. We were going to shop and explore Dar on Saturday morning, but it was raining hard and we were tired of dealing with the traffic and lack of road signs, so we headed back to Dodoma. On the way back, we saw much more of the country, since we were looking out the windshield instead of a bus window. We saw many Masai herdsmen with their herds. They all waved as we went by.