Wingapo friends!
Fun fact: on the World Race you spend a lot of days traveling. If you have ever spent time traveling, you know that more often than not, the journey is just as interesting as the trip itself. So far on the race, we have been blessed with pretty edcent travel days. Nothing too crazy. A couple of close flights. One airport mix-up. Not to shabby for almost 40 people through nine countries.
But you always have to have the one trip. Ours was Zimbabwe to Zambia. This should have been one of the easiest travel days. We started on the border (which is awesome) ready to leave at 11:30am (originally to be 8:30). Hours go by, 1:30 rolls around and the buses show up.
11:30 – ready to leave
1:30 – buses arrive
1:45 – exit Zimbabwe
2:30 – stamped into Zambia
3:00 – find out the bus is missing paperwork (also discover a roach infestation on the bus)
4:30 – start moving (woohoo!)
It is only a 6 hour ride to Lusaka, Zambia so we are ready to go. By this point we have learned that the bus is crawling with roaches, but it has people sized seats and it’s just a few hours so this is dismissed.
8:00 – dinner time; also informed that the bus cannot drive after 9:00 and we will be spending the night on the bus
9:00 – the bus parks
5:00am – the bus starts
By this point we should be an hour or two away from Lusaka
11:00 arrive at destination (a seminary)
So we ended up making a 6 hour travel day a 23 hour travel day.
Sometimes on travel days, you get a great night’s sleep on a sleeper train. Sometimes you sit awake for eight hours while roaches crawl over you on a hot bus.
