Oh and one more thing. My first real experiences with traveling in country bush taxis left me feeling many things. I thought it’d be interesting to share some photos and some of my thoughts that I had while traveling:
- Jesus Christ, how are nine adults going to fit in this tiny car? [5 minutes later] Oh. Ow. That’s how.
- Wow, this countryside is so gorgeous. [trying to get more photos up]
- I am the luckiest person alive to be seeing and experiencing this right now [stupid grin on my face]
- Ohmygod, I am going to die now.
- Please don’t break down, please don’t break down, please don’t break down…
- Please don’t get stuck, please don’t get stuck, please don’t get stuck…
- I wonder how I can move my (insert body part here – arm, leg, buttcheek, hand, head, you get the idea) so that it won’t fall asleep.
- So this is why travel time depends on road conditions.
- Man, if the government would just pave these roads, I bet that would result in an almost immediate jumpstart to the economy, because then this two and half hour ride to go 50 km (~30 miles) would only take about 40 minutes instead and fewer delivery trucks would fall over/get stuck/have shot suspension systems due to the roads that cause them to break down all the time.
- So “good driver” has a whole new meaning here.
- No, no, I am going to die now.
- If Cameroon somehow managed to put itself together a little, have a little bit of infrastructure, have more paved roads, and have an actual tourist industry, this would be a tourist hotspot because it’s so friggin beautiful.
- [During a bush taxi ride with fourteen people in/on the car] I wonder what’s the most number of people that have been crammed into a bush taxi (ie 4-door sedan). I bet somewhere around 25. Hmm, that seems like a lot, maybe less. Maybe only 22 or 23.
- That’s ironic. The truck that fell over and is now stuck in the mud has the logo, “Africa moves, we do too!” on it.
- Well at least I don’t feel bad about not packing light – the guy next to me has a 200-lb sack of rice strapped to the roof and a stalk of 100 plantains in the trunk.
- I really don’t think it’s fair to call that a road
- Did we almost just tip over?
- Is that corn kernels leaking from a bag strapped to the roof? Oh good, the guys who are riding on the roof are taking care of it so we don’t have to stop.
2 comments:
You've got to be exaggerating. There couldn't have been 14 people in a 4 door sedan. For real? Really for real? And was someone really riding on the roof? I guess that might be possible b/c the car obviously has to go slow, given the sometime road, sometime rut. A little bit of worry and loads of love. xxoo Mom
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