Crazy traffic and sometimes even crazier boda drivers weaving around the “jam”.
People transporting large often dangerous items, like huge panes of glass on bodas.
A matatu (taxi van) with the top totally filled up with chickens.
Political campaigning trucks with huge loud speakers blaring music so loud that it kind of takes the breath out of you when you pass them.
The crazy mix of beamers along with sputtering run-down toyotas from the 80’s next to each other in traffic.
Security guards at pretty much every public place that carry huge guns.
Oversized wooden wheel barrows full of fresh pineapples to buy.
Restaurants (that serve something other than rice and beans) where someone else can do the cooking!
Techno/dance praise music from the nearby exercise club.
Advertisements in simple black and white on computer paper plastering telephone poles for everything from “JOBS IN CANADA” to “GAIN OR LOSE HIPS AND BUMS” CALL...
Lots of dust in the air that sticks all over your face and clothes from riding around the city... especially now in the dry season.
Children with babies strapped to their backs running across the road in bare feet to beg at your window while stopped at a traffic light.
Guys selling sunglasses, maps, air time, electric bug zappers, candy, grasshoppers from buckets, and any number of random items along the road.
Going to church where they sing familiar songs in English.
I love the things people put on bodas. That boda-on-a-boda picture is great!
ReplyDeleteGreat job being ready with the camera . . always wish later I had taken pictures of those kind of things like tubs and pigs and beds on bodas. Hope the Bday was fun too.
ReplyDeleteboda on boda! HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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