Getting there is how much fun?

Written 16 and 17 July to be posted when I have wireless internet access....

Way back when, our mentor/Health Volunteers Tour Director, Dr. Troy Lund from the U of M decided that it was cheaper to fly Minneapolis-Detroit-Amsterdam-Uganda so that's what he booked for himself. When I saw that there was only a one hour layover in Detroit and that the direct flight from MSP to Amsterdam was only US$200 more, that's what I booked. Guess who got to Uganda with no delays and guess who spent a day in Paris and the night in in Nairobi when he was rerouted after a delay on the ground in Detroit?




No worries (oh, bullshit, anyone who knows me knows that all I do is worry). With or without worrying, the guy was there right on schedule to pick up me and my son Isaac at the Entebbe, Uganda airport. I would have taken a picture of him for this blog BUT IT IS ILLEGAL TO TAKE PICTURES AT AN AIRPORT IN UGANDA. The airport hotel was lovely (but don't mess with the monkeys) and they had no problem with shifting Troy's reservation until he could figure out how airlines work.








At 10 AM, Sunday July 17 Josephine Buruchara from HVO Uganda called (she seems to know how to find anyone anywhere any time in this country whether Dr. Troy Lund is there to guide them or not) to tell me that Gerald was on his way to pick us up and take us shopping and then on to the Mulago Hospital Guest House.

But first he had to show us how to exchange dollars for shillings:


And how to buy a Sim Card for our cell phone:



Funny how everywhere I go there is a grocery store that looks a lot like one in Minnesota. This one in Uganda is very fussy about taking shillings. Not dollars. Not credit cards.



Traffic in Kampala is just as awful as other places



The Mulago Hospital Guest House is nice







And nobody tells you not to play with the monkeys




After a little lunch Isaac and I tried to see what we could find by walking around the vicinity which is pretty much as follows:












I am sure that we will see more and better once we score a map (WISH THAT WE HAD BROUGHT ONE), once Isaac gets the wireless internet to work, and once Dr. Troy Lund finally arrives.

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