{"id":362,"date":"2010-06-09T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-06-09T02:49:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T07:49:16","slug":"gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Gridlock!"},"content":{"rendered":"
My dear readers…I don’t even know where to begin. The day after arrival was a day of rest really. \u00a0 The next day was a national holiday, Martyr’s Day. \u00a0 \u00a0Today (June 4) was an amazing experience. \u00a0 I got to really see the streets of Kampala. \u00a0 First imagine the worst traffic jam you can ever imagine. Next know \u00a0that everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road. \u00a0 Sorry to my UK friends and my Aussie friends, but it is true. \u00a0 Well I suppose there really is not a real right side of the road here anyway, you just get through the best you can. \u00a0Multiply this mess by at least 1000 cars. \u00a0 Add in about 5000 boda-bodas (small motorcycles) driving like crazy people and then about 2000 bicycles and about 10,000 people in all directions, standing, walking, sitting, crossing, carrying supplies home on boda-bodas and atop their heads. \u00a0 Mix in all sorts of supply trucks carrying a varied amount of objects (charcoal, beans, wood etc.) add in some fire smoke, exhaust and horns honking every few seconds. \u00a0When traffic stops imagine being acosted by a multitude of street vendors selling everything from phone airtime to sugar cane to steering wheel covers forcing them at you through the car windows. \u00a0 Welcome to the city of Kampala. \u00a0You have arrived into the main veins of the city. \u00a0This city pulses all night.<\/div>\n

To negotiate here you really need an excellent driver. \u00a0I have found a few of them and I’m extremely happy about that. \u00a0I haven’t gone on a boda-boda and probably will not during this trip unless I get desperate for something.
\nEverything is on African time here (very laid back) and it is quite difficult to negotiate through this gridlock. \u00a0 So inevitibly everyone is late, but I’ve found the drivers to be very prompt.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to upload the pics but those will have to come later as the connection won’t support much uploading. \u00a0 My photo takes forever and a day to upload and may cancel at the end taking my time away from my internet plan.<\/p>\n

Tina (my Ugandan guide for the day) and driver Jack took me first to the mall to get the modem and my Ugandan sim and airtime. \u00a0 I found out very fast that airtime goes quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dear readers…I don’t even know where to begin. The day after arrival was a day of rest really. \u00a0 The next day was a national holiday, Martyr’s Day. \u00a0 \u00a0Today (June 4) was an amazing experience. \u00a0 I got to really see the streets of Kampala. \u00a0 First imagine the worst traffic jam you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}