The terrible luck along the Swahili coast had forced us to retrace our route back into Malawi. We drove hard, crashing after dark and rising before dawn in Mikumi and Iringa. Driving through the Chinese highway project in the Valley of the Baobabs, a change of seasons was evident in the squat trees’ bare limbs. The temperature plummeted farther west and Fall hit somewhere near the border of Songwe. Inside Malawi, we stayed west on the big road inland through [...]

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