We agreed to purchase a vehicle from Nikki's predecessor as to avoid the calamity that we endured when we got to The Gambia a couple years ago. First of all Uganda is a right hand drive, wrong side of road country. The first day we took the little mitsubishi out we were in for a surprise. Kampala is a a very hilly city, its name is actually derived from this fact. Our little truck "Duke" I will call him as it is written on his door doesn't do hills very well. We went to Nikki's new boss's house for dinner and realized upon trying to leave that Duke refuses to go up hills backwards. This became a problem as the only way out was backwards and straight up a very large hill.
It went like this: first trying to back straight up and only making it halfway, then trying the same in four wheel drive, then trying the same in four wheel drive and the teenage boy pushing, then having them move their car into the yard so I can get a run at it, then finally getting a run at it -in four wheel drive - without Nikki in the car and the teenage boy pushing me to get started up the hill.
Lesson learned: back into driveways in Kampala.
Upon further research I find out Duke has a 650cc engine which is the roughly the size of an average motorcycle.
No comments:
Post a Comment