Here is a play by play of our crazy ride from Uganda to Tanzania. It was an adventure.
Tuesday
7:30: AM: Wake up and shower (always shower when you have a
shower you never know what tomorrow holds)
9AM: breakfast (greasy egg , butter bread and banana)
9-10 AM: Finish packing (doesn’t really take too long
because I don’t really have that much stuff)
10-12PM: Wait for bus to arrive to head from Kampala to Dar
es Salam
12-2PM: Keep waiting for bus (bus was to arrive between
12-2)
2-4PM: Trying to make connection with contacts in Kenya so
we can see them at the border but service not very good so give up and continue
waiting for bus.
4-5PM: Begin hearts game with people
5:30PM: Bus arrives then hurry and load everyone on
6 PM: Arrive at bus station for some reason
6:30PM: Leave bus station
7:30 PM: Finally get out of Kampala after being stuck in
traffic
8PM: Make first potty
break (not a big deal except we told our friends to meet us at the border which
is two hours away at 8)
8:30 PM: Friends call from boarder I inform them we wont be
there for two hours
8-11pm: Play Sudoku to try and pass time
11PM: Arrive at border.
Get to visit with our contacts a little and bum money off of them to use
the dirty squatty
11:30: Leave from border
Wednesday
12-8 AM: Try to get some shut eye which turns out to be very
difficult as we hit a pot hole every few minutes and in the wee hours of the
morning the temperature seems to drop dramatically.
8 AM: Arrive in Nairobi make quick bathroom break while some
men are seen under our bus most likely repairing the damage done by pot holes.
8-12: Watch a movie as we drive through Masai country looked
for lions but didn’t see any.
12 or so cant really remember: Arrive at Kenya/Tanzania border
1-2PM: Board bus but can’t leave Kenya because we don’t pass
weigh station. Back row of bus made to
stand in isle. Bus backs up and we reposition 2-3 times. In the mean time, Ashley and I almost pay 2
USD for a cold Coke but our bus driver gets mad at the vendor that he charged
to much. So we leave coke behind.
2-6:30PM: Ashley takes a million pictures of what we thought
was Mount Kilimanjaro but turned out to be a hill. So we eventually pass Kilimanjaro take some
pictures and eat some popcorn which would have been good with a coke.
6:30 PM: First weigh station, back row stands in the Isle
and we make it through not really sure if we cheated the system or not.
6:30-9:30PM: Watch another movie and avoid head on collision
with Semi
9:30-11:30PM: fall asleep wake up to another weigh station,
back row stand in isle but are now a little irritated so give them lots of
praises.
11:30-1:30AM: Pray a lot as we speed on windy roads
Thursday
1:30 AM: Arrive at another weigh station, back row stands in
isle again and look pissed off so I don’t say anything.
1:45 AM: get pulled over by police and are told we are not
supposed to be on the roads at this hour and that we will have to pull over and
wait till 7 am to drive. Bus erupts in
laughter. Then we realize they might be
serious and we get very quiet. A few
tears may have been shed.
2 AM: Bus begins to drive (not sure if a bribe was paid or
not)
2:30AM: Arrive at hostel (three other teams had another 20
hour bus ride ahead of them) Secretly, thank God I am not one of them.
3 AM: Shower a layer of dirt off and go to bed
