This boda driver just paid 3300000 schillings  for this brand new bike.  He was pretty proud.  Yes the dirt is that red

This entry is in honor of Wade's birthday,  July 26th.  Bet he's glad he doesn't live in Uganda.  If he did he might do this every Sat. morning.  Bikes wouldn't be a hobby but a means of survival.  Happy Birthday Wade

The boda drivers wait at corners for perspective customers.  The word boda is short for boda boda which means "border to border".   Some cyclists  travel from one border of the country to the other but most travel in town.  Our friends the Wests use them for their transportation.  They both ride together for about 2000 schillings and that takes them about anywhere in the Jinja area.  As missionaries we aren't to use them.  The single missionaries can hire a biker to take them places but not a motor cycle.  The couple missionaries all have vehicles of their own.

This is a luxury bike.  Haven't seen many of them and probably the only women we've seen on a bike too.

Mornings the milk man is out delivering fresh milk on his bike

Dad's are often seen walking their children to school.

This is an example of the crazy loads we've seen being moved by a biker.  Several loads were so wide they took up the same amount of space as a car.  Like the day a man was driving down the road with 8 foot 2X4's.