Hotel Memling
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Brazzaville to Kinshasa
... need their help... Phfaaa! Whatever!! We'llbe fine I say (still naive). Fights break out (literally) as they argue over you and the bikes as to whose helping who...after all we are Xmas and birthday cash all roles into one for them! Haha being carried (all 350kg) of me and bike onto the ferry was hilarious. These guys are incredibly strong! The ferry is crazy, 3 boats all tied together and then packed to ...
Week one in the books!!
... It was tasty and I had my fill. It was weird/cool because we washed our hands with a bucket and soap instead of a sink with running water, and we ate most of the meal with our bare hands!
We then left and departed for Tshikaji which was about a 20-25 min drive on some rough road terrain. All the people walking on this road waved hello, and all the children would all scream something that translated to "white people!". The landscape is ...
To the Congo
... money to settle accounts at the hotel before heading to the airport. We drove downtown first, found a place to park and walked through the bustling streets to find a hardware shop. The first one we tried had the bolt and nut I needed but would only sell me a bag of 99 of them. So we walked farther.
Finally we came to one called Établissement Américain (the American Business). There was a Chinese fellow sitting on a stool our front, that’s often what shop owners ...
It's So African!
... came back on after an hour in bed to crank the old fan back to life.
Saturday morning's 5:30 departure ended up being 7:45 so we got to the graduation 2 hours late. But from Matadi the road goes higher and it was raining. The town we stopped at has a micro cool climate. Never felt the humid warmth until getting here to Kinshasa and outside it’s quite nice. Ah, nice break. It was almost cool in the church in that town with the ...
Orphan Story
... and make sure they are well. They are adopting a 5 week old baby girl and also a 4-ish yr. old little boy.
I got to drive out to the orphanage where the little girl is currently living. About 5 weeks ago she was found wrapped in a plastic bag laying in a ditch by the side of the road. She was rescued and taken to an orphanage. There, God found her for this family from the USA who was looking for ...
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- Business Services
- Wheelchair accessibility