Travel Stories in a Pandemic and dealing with Quarantine

I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic.  Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed.  I am also going to talk about what…

Tiny House Tanzania-Kitchen/Sitting Room

Trying to keep the blog balanced so I am going back to Tiny House Tanzania episodes.  This one is about the Kitchen and Sitting Room area.  I may cover some areas I have already touched on but it has been a while so hopefully you will not mind.To start off I purchased a small handheld…

Tiny House Tanzania-Cleaning

One of the great things about a tiny house is the fact it takes a lot less time to clean because there is less house to clean.  In many ways that is also true here in Tanzania.  There is a lot less house to clean, sweep, and mop up.  Cleaning up is something you also…

Tiny House Tanzania Season 3 Episode 3

A tiny house in Tanzania, really most any house not in a city, is what we call “off-grid.”  This means exactly what it sounds like.  We live off the electrical grid, the water grid, the sewer grid, the trash pick up grid.  It is vital to do your planning considering this situation. The cats story…

Tiny House Tanzania Season 3 Episode 2

So I promised some stories about being creative on the Tiny House Tanzania that I think even Zack from Tiny House Nation on FYI Network would be proud of.  This week I am going to talk about the bathroom.   I made the decision early on to switch to a tile floor throughout the house instead…

Basic Introduction to living in a Tiny House Tanzania

As many of you know from some of my earlier blogs, I am a fan of home improvement shows and the Tiny House Nation show on FYI channel with John and Zack.  I have always enjoyed seeing some of the creative ideas they came up with to get the most of the tiny houses on…

Tiny House Tanzania Part Three-A shotgun commitment

This post is two parts combined because they are both about our new structure being built at the site. The official title of the project is Missionary House since the structure will serve as my housing at the site.  While our previous housing structure was anything but a tiny house, I opted to design myself…

Tanzania Tiny House Part Deux

To be technical this is actually a tiny apartment not a house.  Many of you told me how much you enjoyed my stories or cringed during my discussions of living in the tiny house at my previous site.  So many were happy about my living conditions with the new site, that I hated to tell…

Tiny House Tanzania-Ceiling in the Kitchen

As you can see above I am still tinkering with the new camera filter settings and trying some different things out to see if I can get some cool sunset photos. It has been a long time since I have put up a blog on the tiny house adventure here in Tanzania.  I wanted to…