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- whitewolf0
I have tons of stories, look for this thread to be hit for the next six months i'm still processing the trip.
We lived in a village 20 miles south of Yei, that means 20 miles south of electricity.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3.…
Since I was the media guy, I lucked out and got to visit Yei at least once every 2 weeks to dump all of my footage and re-charge everything. So I also was in charge of keeping in touch with people at home.
Once, while in Yei, I was riding on the back of a dirtbike taxi "bota bota" and we're going about 25 mph through town when a herd of cattle crosses the road. He slows down and then sees a break in the herd and guns it. This makes me real nervous so I bail (prob about 10 mph now, but he's getting faster) as soon as I slide in the dirt I look up to see the break in the herd close. A huge bull mounted a cow right in front of the driver. He hits the bull at about 25 mph. Knocks the half ton beast off (and out) of the cow on it's side. The whole town, including an armed military convoy (SPLM) erupts in cheers and laughter. Dude's bike was pretty messed up. WHEW!!!
And we're not talking your normal cows here:
We basically camped out for a month while we built a house. Lived with the locals for over two months. Contracted two wells to be dug in the village when we budgeted for one. Bought and trained the village on brick press to build their schools. Saw nine deaths in the village while we were there. Heard war stories every night. Saw crazy crazy spiritual stuff--the villagers told us that us showing up fulfilled a prophecy spoken in 1991 about white brothers and sisters living under this mango tree bringing water of life etc.
Oh and we ate a baby python.
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well that beats the shit out of any stories i have to tell.bigtrick - cowtus interruptus via motorcycleus?TheBlueOne
- what the hell? mediaguy? who did you work for?freitag
- oh i see: a dear friend's humanitarian non-profitfreitag
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