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Up at 6:30 with alarm. Ian came down for the expected 7:00 breakfast and didn’t look well. \u00a0He had been throwing up most of the night and it was decided that he should just stay at the hotel for the day.
\nWe were on road by 8:15. \u00a0First stop was MBP, the Madagascar Biodiversity Project. \u00a0We went over the crates that came up with us to see if everything was as expected. \u00a0There was a bit of confusion about a couple of items and before we head out to get more of the things we need, we need to review what we had. \u00a0We thought we were missing part of the mounting brackets, but later figured out that we do have them. \u00a0Stopped at a parts supply house and picked a few things. \u00a0By the time we got back on the road it was 11:45 and we stopped at a pizza place. \u00a0Driving from point A to point B is very slow. \u00a0After lunch, off to another place to pick up the batteries that we ordered. \u00a0We also stopped at something close to a Wallmart, but I got distracted by the phones that were for sale. \u00a0I picked up a Nokia 105. I had read about the phone as built for the 1st world. The material cost to make the phone is less than $15 and was expected to sell for close to $20. \u00a0Here there are a bunch of taxes that bumped it up to 89,000 ariary or $40.45. \u00a0I put 10,000 credits on it and it cost me another 2,000 for a SIM card. \u00a0The phone should be able to be on standby for 35 days! \u00a0Back to yet another hardware store and I think we got almost everything figured out. \u00a0Back to the hotel about 5:30 and dinner at 7:00. \u00a0I had the chicken fricassee, but they just cut the chicken into parts with a cleaver. \u00a0The bone fragments are not nice. \u00a0Service was the usual very slow and with dessert, it took 2+ hours before we were done. Back in my room about 9:10 to work on this journal and trade text messages with Antje. Tomorrow we pick up a couple of bigger things, then we hit the road on Wednesday very early for the trip South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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