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Uganda To Botswana By Land — Part 5
Nyakanazi to Kigoma, 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:
Bracing ourselves for another 8 hours on the bus, we settled into our seats the best we could. In the same row as Chris, and across the aisle, I took note of a young mother with three children. A newborn was cuddled into her close, a toddler was sitting on her lap, and the oldest girl, who looked to…
