{"id":1049,"date":"2011-01-17T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2011-01-17T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:24:59","slug":"ups-truck-or-airport-limousine-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/01\/ups-truck-or-airport-limousine-service\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS truck or Airport Limousine service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1052\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/UPS-or-airport-limo-or.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1052   \" title=\"UPS or airport limo or\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/UPS-or-airport-limo-or.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPS or Airport Limo?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Which is it this trip?  Or, which are we?  A UPS brown delivery truck with next day (or month) deliver of mattresses and 8 boxes of medicines for the health center in Bangui or an airport limousine service getting Sarah to the airport in Bangui or a Greyhound bus taking passengers to Zongo?  Every trip in Congo is some combination of many such delivery services in the US.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1051\" style=\"width: 456px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/loaded-truck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051     \" title=\"loaded truck\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/loaded-truck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loaded Truck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On our return from Zongo Thursday we became the Greyhound again as we picked up 5 police who needed to get to the airport in Gemena to fly to Mbandaka\u00a0for some training.  The big truck they were on was slowly unloading and reloading to cross the bad bridges.  We encountered them at the bridge, they asked for a ride and we had room so sure.  Their presence also helped us through a couple police checks later.  Always good to have your own Commandant in the truck to order people around.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are the bridges.  Who wants to run their tire down this beam to cross?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1050\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/I-beam-to-cross-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050  \" title=\"I beam to cross bridge\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/I-beam-to-cross-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I-beam to Cross Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1049&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is it this trip? Or, which are we? 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Every trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPS truck or Airport Limousine service? - Ekstrands in Congo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/01\/ups-truck-or-airport-limousine-service\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPS truck or Airport Limousine service? - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Which is it this trip? 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