Today has been quite an interesting day. We left for Riwoto this morning. (It is in the vicinity of Kapoeta.) Shortly after we got on the main road, the fuel tank fell out from under the seat of Samuel's Land Rover. He and Kristine were in one Land Rover. Lanny, Brian and I were in the other one. We were traveling behind them. It was a very odd sight to come up on Samuel sitting in the middle of the road holding a dented up fuel tank to keep it from falling over.
Fortunately, the Land Rover had a second fuel tank at the back end. After a bit of trouble, we were able to transfer the fuel from one tank to the other. A few minutes later we had to tie off the fuel line that led to the lost tank as it was leaking. Of course we had to re-prime the engine fuel system. Later, the manifold started to come apart where I welded it yesterday. We wired it back up to give it more strength. Later, we had to park for a while to let a river go down so we could cross.
Later, we met an army truck. The soldiers needed a tire patch, so we gave one to them. They gave us some goat meat roasted over an open fire. It was quite good tasting, but a little tough. We finally arrived here (after getting stuck only once) at about 5:30 p.m. This was about eleven hours after our journey began. The distance we travelled was about 100 miles.
This place is in the middle of a thorn tree covered plain in Taposa country. Most Taposa men go stark naked. The appropriate greeting here is "Mata" said repeatedly while shaking hands. More tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment