Our total travel time: 33.5 hours
The Expeditions team left training camp on Tuesday the 17th
at 6:00 am and flew to Amsterdam and then from there to Entebbe, Uganda. When
we got there we stayed in Kampala at a hostel where we camped outside for the
night. Once we had arrived at the hostel we found out that we were going
rafting on the Nile River in the morning, probably one of the best surprises of
my life!!
After we finished rafting we then headed to another hostel
in Jinja for night and then packed up the next day and headed for our ministry
location in Tororo. While heading there we ran into a couple of interesting
situations.
The first was that when we were passing through town and
there was a huge fire. To get the people to leave the surrounding area they set
off a tear gas bomb.
The second event was that there was a massive traffic jam,
so our driver decided to drive on the opposite side of the road until we found
out what the problem was. There had been a truck that had fallen over and was
in the middle of the road, so we all had to get out of the car while our driver
proceeded to off road around and out of the accident.
In both of these cases
everyone was fine and safe, but when these things happen we just shrug our
shoulders and say TIA (This is Africa).
