Cycling off-road through a Baobab forest.

We diverged from the rocky highway on a smooth path through a Baobob forest.  My Cruzbike is more suitable on rough roads (with suspension and wider tires) than Julie’s “normal” touring bike.  She is also tired from sleeping poorly last night.  We considered stopping halfway at 2 pm if we’d seen a nice guest-house.  We did pass a guest-house at 3:30 with only 30k to go (on a 103k day) but Julie, though tired, wanted to keep pushing on.  We stopped for the night at the first guest-house on the edge of Dodoma, capital of Tanzania.  Most city streets are unpaved.  Tomorrow we’ll move downtown to the nicer (and cheaper) Cana Lodge; where we met three cyclists from Barcelona on a 30-day tour from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi.  We enjoyed pleasant conversation over a meal at the lodge’s restaurant, with terrible Tanzanian wine made in Dodoma from local grapes.  I think we are too near the equator (6° S latitude) to produce good wine.

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