Waltzing Through Pain...
Ah! I don’t get it, why will anyone choose to use a muddy, bumpy “forest trail” when we have a federal road that is tarred? This whole thing is not making sense to me....“But driver, you mean the “real” road is worse than this road that has never been tarred?” ...We have not left “old ore road”, we are now at the second “toll gate”, the workers here are younger, restless and more determined that the first toll gate workers.
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Very nice article. I like the fact that great blogs are starting to differentiate themselves. The blogosphere is not dead. Its been refined.
I agree with the above comment
2.u can tell those who are not used to road transport men. as much as I love anecdotes about travelling by road in naija, i would love to for once not be jarred out of my sleep by the drop of the vehicle into a pot hole or not catch flies with my tongue or filter dust in the air in my throat (ok so I sleep with my mouth open, sue me)
I still like bananas and groundnut at the toll gates as well as pekere and yogurt
@ Catwalq: LMAO! Abeg, na wetin, it wouldn't be a Nigerian roadtrip without the madness, shebi?
Let us see what they will do about our roads nw that the World bank is pushing for infrastructurral change in Nigeria. We shall see...