Driving here in kampala is sensory overload…..first you are one the wrong side of the road, so your brain is trying to remember that at all times. Then instead of looking left, right, left you have to look right, left, right. Most of the time it is a two lane road for both ways. On the right side of the car you are trying not to side swipe the other cars coming from the opposite direction and on your left your trying not to hit pedestrians or fall in the ditch which is actually the only water system they really have. Do you have a mental picture yet? Now throw in the glorified motorcycles called boda boda’s. There are about 90,000 boda drivers in kampala and they weave in and out of traffic, so if you are trying to dodge a pedestrian on your left you betta check your right side mirror real quick to make sure you are not going to plow into a boda trying to weave. I think your getting a clearer picture, but now throw in bicycles, goats, herds of cattle, ugandan’s trying to sell you everything and their mother, taxi vans stopping randomly to pick up people (there is no system you just stand on the anywhere on the side of the road and wave your arm and you’ll get picked up), and more boda’s. So like I said its sensory overload.
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