My life in Haiti - Aug '04 to Feb '06

Sunday, January 22, 2006

these feet were made for walking

and that's just what we did!
Yesterday morning at 6am Sandra, Karen & I walked to Borel and back and then decided to walk to Verrettes as well! In total we walked 9 kms yesterday all before 10am! (We drove it today and clocked it on the odometer) It was 12544 steps on my pedometer but it must have miss counted or something cause it said it was only 7.6 kms on the pedometer but 9 kms when we checked in the truck. I had even reset the odometer so that it was easy to tell. It was approx 4.4 kms to Verrettes one way and 4.6 kms to Borel round trip. We took just under an hour to walk to Borel and back, came into the house and ate breakfast and then Rose-Martha asked when Sandra & I were going to walk to Verrettes with her - we said, how about tomorrow morning - then Karen said, why don't we do it right now and we all agreed. Rose-Martha & Maudeline joined us on the trip to Verrettes - we walked down and then took moto taxis back home - it was quite the site - 5 motos in a row all the drivers had on t-shirts for Rene Preval - one of the candidates for the presidential election here in Haiti. Maudeline & Karen also had them on and Rose-Martha had on a Preval hat. Only Sandra & I weren't decked out in Preval gear. It took us approx an hour to walk to Verrettes and then Sandra & I sat in the shade and people watched while Karen and the 2 girls took moto taxi's to Fedna's to check in on her cause she was sick.