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An evening moon over Mbeya.

Lots and lots of stuff. We are truly American!  To be sure we’ll be able to drive the car to Dar with all of our stuff, we did a -Will it fit?- dry run of packing up the car.  All of it fit… after four different attempts.  The main purpose of these photos isn’t to show you what it looked like but for me to remember how I got it all in.  Here’s a list of what you see:

UofM large duffle bag
Large red garment bag
Large green duffle bag
Stroller
Infant car seat
Smaller gray carry-on
Small brown carry-on
Very large burgundy suitcase
Large Red suitcase
Two large purple Rubbermaid containers
Large gray plastic container

(Not pictured; still left to fit into the small spaces)
Toddler car seat
My laptop bookbag
Dana’s laptop shoulder bag
Asher’s backpack
Diaper bag
Dana’s purse
Camera bag
Traveling food
Jonathan
Dana
Asher

Floor to ceiling.

Closer look from the rear.

Closer look from the rear.

Left rear passenger door view.

The luggage hole for Asher’s car seat.

A Vwanji woman reading the Gospel of Mark in her language for the first time.

Cassette copies of Ruth and Jonah in the Nyakyusa language ready to be distributed.

Barbed wire and posts that eventually heightened our home security.