Notes

I'm nearly out of internet time, but here are some of the things from this week:

- Jeffrey and I took 2 taxis and about 12 hrs to get up Fort Portal on the western side of Uganda. On the way, the road passes through Queen Elizabeth Nat. Park so we got a free bit of animal viewing (elephants!) as the sun set over the Rwenzori Mountains. It was ridiculously picturesque.

- We hitched 2 rides and walked a bunch and finally reached the Lake Nkuruba Community Campsite, where we stayed in a little banda (round cabin thing) at the edge of a crater lake. The lake was beautiful and hidden amongst a jungle of trees and vines. We saw 3 types of monkeys around the camp and jeffrey blew out the camera batteries trying to get video of them.

- We met up with a couple that recognized Jeffrey's Common Ground shirt as a Maine thing and we proceeded to find out that they are a strange mirror image of us: she majored in ceramics, he's into agriculture. They both know Brunswick well and they just sold their house a few miles from Goucher. Very strange, we liked them a lot, obviously.

- We hiked through the mountains and saw a number of other crater lakes, as well as about a million kids asking us for money, sweets, pens or books.

- Today we hitched back to Fort Portal in the back of a matooke (plaintain) truck. We had a few unscheduled stops (matooke delivery, cassava drop-off, tea plantation detour, police pull-over, etc).

- Tommorow we head for the park to try to see some animals!

out of time! love you all!