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Uganda to Botswana By Land— Part 4
Bukoba to Nyakanzi, Tanzania — December 2021
This is a series of posts that I wrote that document our overland journey from Uganda to Botswana in 2021. We were traveling to Botswana for a housesitting job, so we had a fixed date to be there. We were leaving Uganda after 7 months of being in the country, 6 of those months mostly helping a village find their way out of starvation. We were tired and exhausted. We gave ourselves 15 days to get there and thought that would be plenty. It wasn’t. We traveled fast and hurriedly arriving at our housesit early on the morning that the owners left the country. This is our story.
To start at the beginning:
The morning came quickly and our alarm rustled us up at 4:15. It was an ungodly hour to be waking up, but we knew that it was our only option.
We made our way over to the bus stand and were surprised by how much hustle and bustle was going on already. The boys were already out on the sidewalk hounding anyone who approached the terminal. We marched past them declaring that we had…
