O' the Rockets Red Glare

2005-07-04, Nkata Bay, Malawi

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So on the Fourth of July, I did what all patriotic Americans do to celebrate our divorce from the Brits. I went to the nearest lake with a batch of low grade explosives and got drunk. I took a thatched bungalow overlooking Lake Malawi at Nchata Bay. For $7/nite at Mayoko Village I had my own one star chalet with a four poster wooden bed draped in blue mosquito netting and a private balcony with a five star view. The resident cat came to visit often and knew where the holes in the reed thatching were to enter. She would always be curled up on my bed and would come & go as she pleased. The evening was spent on my balcony drinking cold crappy beer watching fishermen wade by in their homemade dugout canoes in front of the silhouetting sunset.

Malawi seduced me into staying for ten days rather than the two I was planning.