Day 89: Back to Yoff

Still being in my Nder routine, I woke up really early, at around 7. While I ought to have been quite tired, I really wasn’t…

After spending most of the morning typing up journal entries on my laptop, I had some tea and bread for breakfast. As a group, we decided that we would try to depart for Yoff around 1. Once again, we set off to explore St. Louis, this time, with Tom and Sam. We showed them the places we had seen yesterday, and ended up seeing more places we had missed on the first day. We stumbled upon a family that had a pelican as a pet…and they even invited us in to their compound to take pictures. The pelican was huge: almost waist-high. It was one of those things where you say: “only in Africa.”

After walking around some more, we began searching for a place to eat lunch. The search ended up being extremely difficult, due to Sam and Tom’s desire for “steak and chips.” Sometimes, those English can be quite picky. They turned down almost every place, and finally, under time constraints, they agreed to this café place (which didn’t have steak and chips.)

We returned to the hotel at 1:15 to find everyone still sitting around, waiting for the bus. After numerous transportation difficulties, the 14 of us and all of our luggage piled in to two “sept places” or, small station wagons with seven seats. It was quite a cramped ride home, and probably four of the most uncomfortable hours of this trip. We saw three camels walking with a herd of cattle...which added to the strangeness of the day (in terms of seeing animals.)

We arrived in Yoff at around 8, and Rich and I walked home to our house by the beach. We greeted our family, which was nice…I still miss my family in Nder though.