From the dashboard of MM

Argh. Despite my best intentions and starting the year off with a roll, I've been lagging behind in my posts.
So today I bring you a random assortment of photos taken from the dashboard of MM. When I take the pictures, I always have good intentions on blogging them immediately. Alas, here we are.

I don't even know what to say about this one!

Hear, hear! Keep Dar Beautiful!

Happy hounds after a beautiful trip to the beach!

I'd never noticed that orange and green paint job on the building beside the (I think) Hindu temple

Sweeeeeedish

Glad I'm not crammed on to that dala dala

This pink and green lorry full of people was just too awesome NOT to snap a picture of!

From the dashboard of MM - The Home Stretch

Here it is! After a few days of playing with the optimal positioning of my camera phone on the dashboard of MM, I managed to record my drive home from work. Perhaps this seems like a silly thing to record, but I though for those of you who may never make it to Tanzania to visit, I could share with you a slice of my every day life.

And for those of you who have been here and maybe even riden in the MM from Kazi House to the peninsula, I thought it might be a nice reminder of good times in MM.

I hope you enjoy watching it. I enjoyed dusting off the old Adobe Premier to cut this together.

Special surprise project to be unveiled SOON

Dear lovely blog readers, I've been in the midst of a little project which I hope you'll enjoy. Just to whet your appetite, I'll tell you it's a little clip from my daily life here in Dar es Salaam.

It's almost done, but not quite. I just have a bit of collecting material left to do (hopefully on the way home from work today) and then I should be ready to unveil tomorrow.

Stay tuned for exciting visuals from DSM tomorrow!

From the dashboard of MM

If you look carefully, you'll see three guys sitting on the back of that truck. Awesome.

I just love the ladies in their black coming from mosque.

And even more I love the sparkle-y sparkles on the headdresses of these women... there must have been something special going on today because there were lots of people around these little back-roads which are usually almost empty and all of them were in their special sparkles.

From the dashboard of MM

MM is the working title for my car... short for Miriam Mobile, which was a text mistake from my good friend Ashley one day. MM still needs to be christened with a more catchy name though.

In the meantime, here are a few pictures from the dashboard of my car. Yes, this first one was taken while driving... I assure you I was going no more than 10km/h and was still driving more sanely than the majority of the drivers on the road. I'm not sure if you can read this, but the sticker in the back of this car reads: Prit Boi

What can I say, it deserved a photo.

Here we have Miss Peanut, who isn't even supposed to be in the front of the car. She's supposed to ride in the back. But here we are at 7am, waiting for Minna so I can let her out for doggie day care at their house while we're at work in the day.

And as soon as I turn my back, look what happens. Good thing I took the keys out, or who knows where she would have driven to!

Teenagers!

Now if only I could take photos or videos of the traffic cops while I'm commuting to work in the morning. They are totally awesome.