The drive at night is a unique experience. The lanes very lightly marked on the road are a suggestion, not a rule. Very few accept the suggestion so you can easily see 4 or even 5 cars running side by side in two rather narrow lanes. The experience is somehow like Space Invaders. The computer game remember? Imagine you’re at the bottom looking up at the spacecrafts. You see 5 pairs of lights flashing at you, going left and right with no apparent pattern, and you have to find your way through trying to avoid the lights. Messiah is particularly good at it, which I appreciate.
During the ride I get to know a few things about Uganda. Although most people’s names are biblical they don’t care shit about religion. Gas prices are pretty high, around $2 the liter, because the government imposes gas shortages to collect more taxes. Nightlife in Kampala is a paradise for girls, they have campus nights on Tuesdays and Fridays when students go out and girls don’t pay, they have ladies night on Thursdays, Sundays and most Saturdays when girls don’t pay, so as long as girls stay at home on Mondays and Wednesdays they can get hammered pretty cheap. I also learned that the land is fertile but since the price of commodities went down, people do subsistence agriculture.
Arriving to Kampala is not remarkable. A bunch of tall buildings, some lights, a casino, a few gatherings, nothing more. The hotel is fine, maybe too expensive for what if offers but it’s clean and has no bugs. I’m exhausted and I fall asleep before I can even think about it.
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