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Uganda to Botswana By Land — Part Two
Kikorongo to Mutukula (Uganda/Tanzania Border) November 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.
As predicted, the music roared on all night. And as predicted, we slept like babies. Except at one point when a man was at our window calling to us. We tried to ignore him until he pushed it wide open and the curtain with it.
“Sir, please, I have your towels.”
“What the Fuck!” Chris roared. Not only was it about midnight, but we were also shocked that, despite the fact that…
