On the down-slope of our time here in Europe, Gabriela and I decided that it was time for one more major travel adventure. The Blog followers of "Meenation" demand material, and another trip to Paris wasn't cutting it. You want real adventure - blood, sweat, and mosquitoes. And thus, we give you - AFRICA! Africa - It's unlike any place we've ever seen. We packed up our giant hiking back-packs, rolled up our sleeping bags, grabbed our bottle of 100% pure DEET bug-poison, and flew out for two weeks on the African continent. We traveled throughout three countries, Uganda, Kenya, and [View Full Entry]

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This is all a bit rushed, I really have a lot of time so I should write something. But I am paying by the minute to be here and its grating on my conscious at 1.5 KSH a minute. Ill keep this short. Rural Uganda was pretty basic. They seem to have one main road that is tar sealed then anything off that road seems to have a high likelihood of chance of being dirt, in and about Entebbe anyway, which is where this is. It was good to see what the local life is like in a small town outside [View Full Entry]

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This is called Ajona, and yes it does taste as bad as it looks. It was quite an experience though, too end the day and head off into the local township or village and basically sit around and drink (very sour) beer with the locals. I bought a straw and had more than one sip, maybe ten in all? It was interesting, its served warm as they continually add more hot water and mix as the night goes on. It was funny as when I came they were on a small bucket, then they changed to a medium bucket, and by [View Full Entry]

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We got up nice and early and showered today. Then everyone loaded into the taxi and the Toyota and we headed out. It was quite scattered, to be perfectly honest. Once we finally got everyone in the vehicles (which was rushed by my yelling in Luganda), we started in to town. Sarah and I got dropped off just in time to get on the bus to Rwanda. Originally, we were going to fly to Kigali to save time, but it was not cost-effective at this time, so we decided on the 8-hour bus ride. Whenever anyone in Africa gives you a [View Full Entry]

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We got up this morning and did our laundry- African style. This mean a bucket of soapy water for scrubby clothes and a bucket of clean rinse water, and they hanging them out on the line to dry. It actually wasn’t too bad! Later, Sarah and I parted from the rest of the group as Jordan took us into town to meet up with Joshua. From the Shell station, he found us a taxi that would take us to Entebbe to see the new school. The African Children’s Choir has a school in Kampala for all the former Choir kids, but [View Full Entry]

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A quick bit of backtracked and filled in writing. Thus I am writing this from 4 days in the future, or about events 4 days in the past. Whatever view tickles your fancy. Well I had a great end to my horrible airport stay. Business class upgrade, so good, the perks, bring them on. For dinner we were served some kind of salmon and cream cheese starter followed by pan seared springbok medallions, closed by a date pudding. its strange airplane food that actually tastes good. Anyway, one thing to note about Uganda as far as initial observations go, its so [View Full Entry]

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Apparently, have clever blog titles isn’t going to be my thing this trip. This one is just a bunch of random observations from various things I’ve seen and experienced, as well as answers to questions that at least I had before coming that maybe you guys will be curious about too. Oh, and sorry I’m posting so many long ones all at once. We haven’t made it to the internet café recently, and life keeps happening. Power: as I’ve already said, power comes and goes. Usually it only goes at night, or after 7:30, but occasionally it will be off during [View Full Entry]

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I've been trying to load these. [View Full Entry]

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This morning was special because we were up with the sun (everyday at 7:00) and got some writing done, and then went to see David at the internet café. Because we went in the morning, and probably extra because it was Sunday, it worked. Pretty fast, but more importantly, it didn’t come in and out! We got to get all our list done, but probably could have been there another hour or two if it was available. I’m sorry, but the blog site wouldn’t let me post pictures. It seemed every 5 minutes there were more people coming to the house. [View Full Entry]

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Day 10; 17.06.09 Ruhengeri; Rwanda - Kabale; Uganda An early departure from Ruhengeri and we were at the Rwandan / Ugandan boarder in about a half hour. We´ve quickly come to realise that if there´s a boarder involved then nothing is simple in Africa. Our crossing was supposed to be as easy as getting from a to b, however there always seems to be some jumped up boarder official wanting their payoff before allowing you to get to b! So after paying the corrupt pen pusher $50 for an unwanted duplcate stamp in our passport, it was on to Kabale where [View Full Entry]

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