Thursday, October 2, 2008

How do you spell C-O-N-G-E-S-T-I-O-N?

Luanda traffic! The current population of Luanda is around 3-4 million people, although the city was built to accommodate 300,000-400,000. Magnify this by more people driving than know how, a small handful of traffic signals throughout the entire city, double-parked cars due to insufficient parking places, terrible road conditions, and random road closings where the entire street has been dug up overnight. So it is not uncommon to be in the car most of the day. Allow 30 minutes to an hour for a normal 10 minute drive. The best by-product is that I have done more reading here than I have done in the past 10 years! (Don't worry--I'm not driving the car! We must have a driver for security reasons. Plus, there is NO way I would ever venture out to drive in this traffic.)

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