traveling solo

A travel reporter from an explorer magazine said traveling solo is the best way to see places and meet people. Initially I was concerned about traveling alone but it appears to have many benefits.

people I have met along the way (all random encounters)
- a man buying and selling rice, we discussed the local elections and positive changes in malawi
- a man traveling for five days from Malawi to get back home to Burundi, he spoke at least four languages.
- a man who is buying sunflower seed oil press machines to take them to angola to the UN refugee camps. he travels with cash from lusaka to Dar, buys the stuff goes back to the angola border loads them into six wheel off road trucks and transports them 12 hours to the camps. "gotta be careful with all the mines around".
-breakfast with some tanzanian university students at a small local cafe, we talked about travel and tribalism
Of course tourists must be watchful for not so nice people but it opens a chance to meet many nice ones.