Off to the Vinton's

Sue and I are heading on a bus to Mafinga today where we will meet a bus that Village Schools runs to transport AIDs patients to clinics for treatment. It runs every day and will take us to Madisi where the Vinton's live and built the first school. Sue will be spending time there with a Finnish doctor who has worked in Tz for 29 years and make rounds of AIDs patients. I will follow up on the science project we did last June with their son Joshua and some teachers from Madisi. We will return Saturday and hope to go to Kising'a on Sunday for the first time. We had planned to take a beach vacation the following week but have decided to stay here so I can focus on the microfinance program and Water program. Here are some photos from around town and the bus terminal where we will leave from today.

Just received a text from Steve, their bus to Madisi is not running today. Trying to come up with Plan B. Par for the course here.
UPDATE: Have a plan B, will take a different public bus the two and a half hours to Madisi and get there before dark. Should be interesting.

Streets of Iringa with beans drying:


Wingreds, the largest grocery in town. They have a freezer with good meats and cheese, yougart, and milk in the refrigerator in back. The packaged items are typically more expensive than US so this market is not used by most Tanzanians.


Local daladala bus terminal:


Main Bus terminal, large buses go to Morrogorro, Dar, and Mbeya. Smaller coasters go to nearby towns like Mafinga an hour away: