The 24 Hour Bus Ride

June 15 3:30 pm - Board bus to Nairobi in Kampala
4 pm - Bus leaves Kampala
6 pm - Ali and Jeffrey each take pre-emptive Immodium tablets after eating some wierd falafel in Kampala and feeling concerned that this could come back to haunt them in a bad way on a bus with no bathrooms.
9:30 pm - Cross Uganda/Kenya border

June 16 5:30 am - Bus arrives in Nairobi
6-9 am - Wait in bus station, both because we are getting another bus, and because it's still dark and we are in a notoriously sketchy part of the city
9:30 am - Board bus to Mombasa
9:45 am - Bus hits another bus in Nairobi, breaking a back window
10 am - Board a new bus
8 pm - Bus arrives in Mombasa
9:30 pm- Jeffrey and Ali sleep

So we are now in Kenya, after quite a lot of busriding, as you can see. Luckily we had seats. And in fact, we managed to not be to cranky despite our lack of sleep/food/comfort. And, neither of us had any ehem..problems with the falafel and hotsauce we'd downed before boarding the bus in Kampala. Mombasa so far seems quite nice, and much more architecturally pleasing than Kampala, or really anywhere in Uganda. Tommorow we head up the coast to Lamu Island, where the only form of transport is donkeys and your own 2 feet. This requires another 6 hr busride, but will hopefully be worth it. I'll try to keep you posted.