坦桑尼亚阿鲁沙2006第23天-虚无的地方

Anywhere that's far enough away from home starts to feel pretty far away. Yesterday we had to drive to Kenya to pick up a relative who was having an immigration problem. There's basically one road from Arusha to Namanga, Tanzania which is the border town with Kenya.

离家足够远的任何地方都开始感到很遥远。 昨天我们不得不开车去肯尼亚接一个遇到移民问题的亲戚。 从阿鲁沙到坦桑尼亚的纳曼加，基本上只有一条道路，这是与肯尼亚的边境城镇。

That's Mount Meru in the picture, not Kilimanjaro, by the way. That's the view out of the room upstairs in the house here in Arusha.

顺便说一下，那是照片中的梅鲁山，而不是乞力马扎罗山。 那是阿鲁沙(Arusha)这里房子楼上房间外面的景色。

Some relatives came into Nairobi via air and were taking a bus down to Arusha from there, but they ran into an immigration snag (more on that in another post) and we had to make an emergency run from Arusha to the Kenyan/Tanzanian border.

一些亲戚乘飞机进入内罗毕，然后从那里乘公共汽车去阿鲁沙，但是他们遇到了一个移民障碍(在另一个地方有更多问题)，我们不得不紧急逃离从阿鲁沙到肯尼亚/坦桑尼亚边界。

Along the way we had some car trouble and we ended up in the middle of nowhere. We were on the side of a two lane kind-of paved road for about 20-30 minutes and no other cars went by. It was a very interesting feeling, for me at least, because not only was I in a different country, but I was also, I felt, in the middle of this one, at least 100km from really anywhere. We didn't even see any Maasai or huts or anything. Would we need to sip water from the tips of plants to survive?

一路上，我们遇到了一些汽车故障，结果到了茫茫荒野。 我们在一条两车道的柏油马路边上行驶了大约20-30分钟，没有其他汽车驶过。 至少对我来说，这是一种非常有趣的感觉，因为我不仅在不同的国家，而且在这个中间，我也感觉到与任何地方都至少相距100公里。 我们甚至都没有看到任何马赛族或小屋或任何东西。 我们是否需要从植物的尖端喝水才能生存？

So, that got me thinking about what the "middle of nowhere" meant. I suppose if we drove OFF the road for 4-5 hours and then stopped, then maybe I'd be in the middle of nowhere. Still, we felt pretty isolated as we wondered if another car would go by, and if no one did go by, would we have to sleep in the bush. Because we'd left in a hurry we weren't exactly 100% prepared.

因此，这让我开始思考“无处不在的中间”的含义。 我想，如果我们开车离开公路4-5小时然后停下来，那么我可能会茫然无措。 仍然，我们感到非常孤立，因为我们想知道是否会有另一辆车驶过，如果没有人驶过，我们是否必须睡在灌木丛中。 因为我们急忙离开，所以我们还没有做好100％的准备。

In the middle of my introspection and philosophizing, without another living thing as far as I could see in any direction up to the horizon, I checked my cell phone and I had 4 out of 5 bars for "Kencell."

在自我反省和哲学思考的中间，我没有看到任何活物，直到在地平线上都看不到任何地方，我检查了手机，并在5个酒吧中有4个为“ Kencell”。

Apparently I wasn't in the middle of nowhere.

显然我不是无处不在。

翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/arusha-tanzania-2006-day-23-where-is-the-middle-of-nowhere