Posts Tagged ‘traffic’
Flashmob of 1
Yesterday I was waiting for a friend in town, and I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting at Bourbon Coffee just to bide time and read my book. So instead, I sat in the roundabout. It’s a huge roundabout, with a massive but waterless fountain in the middle, and very well kept. One day, I’ll [...]
Road rage, or, why not to live with a doctor
Two days ago, I wrote a post like this, but it was all wild and triumphant. It was a love note to motos, and a farewell to my old, cautious self who had refused to get on the back of them. The computer died, though, and I lost the post. Since then, I have again [...]
You know you’ve hit the next peg of development when…
There’s a rush hour. That’s right, Kigali has a full-fledged rush hour. It took ten minutes to get from the hilltop to the traffic light near my house, the entire length of which is maybe a quarter of a mile. The lane opposite us was free and clear, but we were clogged like the Lincoln [...]
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