October 10, 2008

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Ladybug Mecca is so cute!

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Butter's not pissed in this shot...this is just his dancing face.

Digable Planets | BB King's 10.8.08

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Canon A630
Great blast from the past. They were on top of their game, and I felt lucky to be there.

Not sure who the girl was. Great singer.

September 13, 2008

Market | Lilongwe, Malawi

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Portra 400NC
Not a particularly big market and not marked on my guidebook map...mostly sold vegetables, flour, oil and rubber shoes.

Rubina buys a SIM card | Lilongwe, Malawi

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Portra 400NC
Why...how else do you do it? We had first approached a shack with a handwritten sign proclaiming "SIM CARDS!" but of course that was pure foolishness. The women sitting to the side on plastic stools selling SIM cards out of their purses made much more sense. Sort of like when I approached the Celtel booth at the airport and was told "no no...buy your SIM at the Avis counter."

Goats | Lilongwe, Malawi

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Portra 400NC
Lilongwe is a cosmopolitan capital city where anyone should feel comfortable taking one's goats for a stroll.

Baskets | Road to Nkhotakhota

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Canon A630

Fence kids | Nkhotakhota, Malawi

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Olympus OM-2N | Fuji Reala
The kids around Nkhotakhota are not supposed to come onto the hotel's property (other than walking by on the way home) so they hang around the edges waving, hoping to catch of glimpse of the muzungu guests.

Wood carvers | Nkhotakhota, Malawi

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Olympus OM-2N | Fuji Reala
The woodcarvers lived near Nkhotakhota and were invited by the hotel to set up shop on the premises so they could reach more tourists. I talked to these guys for a while, and still feel slightly guilty that I didn't buy anything from there. It was just too early in the trip for shopping.

Ceramic minibus | Nkhotakhota, Malawi

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Olympus OM-2N | Fuji Reala
I LOVE this. If I could have carried it I would have bought it...so much detail, so cute, so much like my travel experiences.

Drying laundry | Nkhotakhota, Malawi

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Canon A630

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