Once you get out of Kampala, you travel one small paved road for miles and miles and miles past village after village, small town after small town and beautiful rural scenes. We sampled Ugandan “fast food” at Mubende, where you drive into town and slow down while locals run up to your car selling chicken on a stick, chapatis (like tortillas), and cooked bananas. The kids went crazy about the food - it was quite good. When I can I will post the great picture I have of Quinn enjoying it. We have heard it is risky to eat there (but we did not hear that until afterwards!) fortunately we had no after effects. After about five hours of this driving, and perhaps one potty break on the side of the road (no rest stops here, believe me) we arrived in Fort Portal. Fort Portal is the closest city to us. It is where the mail you will send us (pretty please! PO Box 383 Fort Portal, Uganda) will come. I took a picture of the teeny tiny post office too, will post soon. Our team has a missionary family in Fort Portal. They are sort of our logistics people. They can manage communication and business issues that are difficult for us as we are so much father out.

After Fort Portal we began our drive into the mountains. We pass between the mountains through a much lower spot. Apparently the highest elevation on the Mountains of the Moon is 19k feet, so they are not small mountains. The roads were all dirt, very dusty and narrow. They were not as bad as city driving though. We did not make it through before dark and after dark was a bit scarier. The views are thousands and thousands of feet high and are gorgeous. I got a great picture of us overlooking Congo which I want to post. We saw Colobus monkeys and a troop of baboons. We found a baby chameleon which was fun.

You really have the feeling you are driving past the end of the world. The road is dirt and keeps getting more and more isolated. We saw some World Vision rural development project signs and I thought, we are farther out than World Vision’s projects. That felt so odd as I have looked so often in their catalogs and thought those projects so far away. Now I am hear close by them.

Then we arrived at the beginning.