Arusha, Tanzania
Watching the changing light & clouds on Mt. Meru(4565m) from the rooftop bar at Arusha Backpackers.
We found a modern bike shop in Arusha, the trekking and safari center of Tanzania, located at the foot of Mt. Meru (4565m) which blocks our view of Kilimanjaro (5895m). I got another new chain since my gears are still slipping; then found out the problem is that some of the teeth on my rear sprockets are worn almost to sharp points (after 30,000 km). Luckily they have a new 8-speed cassette here. I also replaced my knobby tires with smoother 26 x 1.75 tires that have no name brand or country of origin. The 26 x 2.125 knobby tires (with only 1500k and 1000k on them) were good for unpaved roads but unnecessary on pavement. Julie had her bike tuned-up and front hub tightened again. While looking for a new memory card for the old camera I’ve been using for 3½ months since my second new camera was stolen in South Africa; I walked into Benson Electronics and saw new Olympus cameras! Shops in South Africa do not carry the shockproof/waterproof model I want, but here they do. I bought the newer version Olympus Stylus Tough-6010, with 12 megapixels. I’d been using a 5 megapixel Olympus Stylus 500 (my first digital camera). The bad news is that when I downloaded my last thousand photos onto a flash drive (instead of just replacing the memory card) it automatically erased the memory card and the photos are not on the flash drive. I hope there is some way to retrieve them.
Old 8-speed cluster (left) & new.
