TZ number one: flight & arrival

Flying to Dar Es Salaam, the biggest city in Tanzania that used to be the capital and is now losing it to some city in the geographical center of the country, was the longest amount of time I have ever spent in an airplane over any 2 day period. After spending the morning (1:45 to 11am) in JFK international airport in NY and sleeping on the floor, we departed on the longest flight, around 11 hours. It was long, but on the best plane I've ever been in. Each normal seat (not just the first class ones) had a touch screen monitor on which we could watch movies and TV shows on demand and play their library of music and games. I did take advantage of the movies and tv shows but I had my own music and didn't like the game controller or the games. My brother did not want that flight to end, but I was ready to be at our hotel in Dar, where we were after another 5 hour plane ride. We were in Dar for 1 day, which was enough time to get almost lost and to find the Indian ocean. The next day we arrived in Musoma. My mom has a friend here who is in the internet business - that is to say that he is the sole Internet provider around and does internet for Musoma as well as other villiages that have very little other contact with the outside world. He had Rhode (pronounced road-y because he's the driver) come get us in the truck to take us to the house we're renting. We got there and took our stuff inside, it was lacking some things but it was still quite luxurious by standards here.