Clear off the roads!

Theresa drives in Haiti!!! Well, yesterday was my big outing to Port au Prince and it started off with a bang! Up at 3am to make sure that I did everything I needed to before I left, in the truck at 5:25am so I would be at Nicolas’ at 5:30am and we would be on our way. Well the truck wouldn’t start, wouldn’t start and finally 40 minutes later I called Carl, another missionary in the area to come help me figure out what was wrong. Diagnosis: Dead battery, so he jumped-started my truck and on my way! I then drove from my yard in Pont Deschapelles to Borel, past Borel to Coupon (which is as far as I have ever gone before) onto to Liancourt (and over 14 or so polis kouche’s –speed bumps) picked up Calerbe & his wife and continued to drive till just out side of Pont Sonde. I would have continued farther but it was market day and so traffic is totally crazy! That was about a 35 minute trip and by far the longest distance I have driven in Haiti, not counting the “bad road” between Pont Sonde & St. Marc where you drive at about 10 miles an hour. I am finally getting the hang of driving in Haiti but I still do not want to drive in St. Marc or Port au Prince. That will be a long time down the road (and after I have gotten my Haitian’s driver’s license)