Thrive

So within 15 minutes of leaving the airport, I realized that even though I wanted to make sure I was cognizant of not coming to Africa with the “ignorant American” view, I was most definitely the ignorant American. Entebbe road, which is the major road that takes you from the Ugandan airport to the capital city of Kampala, is smoother and nicer to drive on than 50% of the roads in Michigan. When it was mentioned that this road was paved when the Queen came in 2008, our local

I am sitting on my third plane of the day, now only 1 short leg from Kigali, Rwanda to my final destination of Entebbe, Uganda. They have just reminded us over the announcements that we should not bring any plastic bags into the country, and I recollect a traveler’s guide saying that arrests could be made just because you have a plastic bag with you. Oh, right…through the haze of intermittent plane naps mixed in with movies, I remember that I have just crossed over the ocean