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August 8th, Day 38 in Africa (16th in Guinea) - 8:45 Bailo, Ousman, Dr Bob and i departed the hotel in Kindia town. Ibro would be remaining in Kindia for more meetings. But first "I hope you don't mind, we want to buy some pineapples here?" Ousman asked us. No problem. And we were off!
Once again several hours driving on the highway winding down a valley towards the coast. This section of the highway had been recently fixed up and was pretty good. At one point there was a fair bit of a traffic jam because a fuel truck was jackknifed across half the road.
Then we passed through a village where the fellas had to stop to buy bananas for their families. You might be noticing a trend here, stop in the places that specialize in the different things to buy the local specialty!
At 10:30 we arrived at Bailo's house on the edge of the city, where we unloaded his fruit loot and luggage before proceeding.
Once again it was a long slow slow through the fetid city. We sat in heavy traffic for a bit before Bailo declared he had a Plan B and we went rumbling through bone shaking side roads again.
Finally at just around noon we were back at the hotel! Ousman left me his laptop so i could write me reports (since mine is still a glorified paving slab) and then the lads were off. Bob and i then veritably looked at eachother and said "LET'S GET SOME FOOD"
I must confess for my part I've seen more than enough rice dishes this past 38 days in Africa so i was eager for this pizza. So eager i didn't even pick off the mushrooms! And yes that's a fly on my glass of fresh fruit juice.😒
And then i wrote my reports! I still have two whole days to "write my reports," and then i fly off on Wednesday (to arrive in Australia on Saturday after touching down in like half of West Africa on the way). Meeting with USAID on Tuesday which seems like it might actually happen for once. Other than that i want, as always, to try to visit the Islands of Los ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_de_Los ), but I've so far never been able to finagle it. I asked someone at the hotel who said he'd ask someone he thinks knows. But also The Organization might have their IT guy look at my laptop so i might have to hang around for that.
Oh and i ate a quarter of a kola nut, which is why I'm still up at 1:25am. 🙈
Once again several hours driving on the highway winding down a valley towards the coast. This section of the highway had been recently fixed up and was pretty good. At one point there was a fair bit of a traffic jam because a fuel truck was jackknifed across half the road.
Then we passed through a village where the fellas had to stop to buy bananas for their families. You might be noticing a trend here, stop in the places that specialize in the different things to buy the local specialty!
At 10:30 we arrived at Bailo's house on the edge of the city, where we unloaded his fruit loot and luggage before proceeding.
Once again it was a long slow slow through the fetid city. We sat in heavy traffic for a bit before Bailo declared he had a Plan B and we went rumbling through bone shaking side roads again.
Finally at just around noon we were back at the hotel! Ousman left me his laptop so i could write me reports (since mine is still a glorified paving slab) and then the lads were off. Bob and i then veritably looked at eachother and said "LET'S GET SOME FOOD"
I must confess for my part I've seen more than enough rice dishes this past 38 days in Africa so i was eager for this pizza. So eager i didn't even pick off the mushrooms! And yes that's a fly on my glass of fresh fruit juice.😒
And then i wrote my reports! I still have two whole days to "write my reports," and then i fly off on Wednesday (to arrive in Australia on Saturday after touching down in like half of West Africa on the way). Meeting with USAID on Tuesday which seems like it might actually happen for once. Other than that i want, as always, to try to visit the Islands of Los ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_de_Los ), but I've so far never been able to finagle it. I asked someone at the hotel who said he'd ask someone he thinks knows. But also The Organization might have their IT guy look at my laptop so i might have to hang around for that.
Oh and i ate a quarter of a kola nut, which is why I'm still up at 1:25am. 🙈