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We had a plan.\u00a0 We were going to drive to Yaounde in the usual approximate 9 hours.\u00a0 We were going to get our friend, Johanna, into town in time to catch her midnight flight to Sweden.\u00a0 We were going to get Josh, our personal nerd, back with his family.\u00a0 We had various things on our Yaounde to-do list to take care of. We had a plan.\u00a0 Sometimes I think when we have a plan, the Lord smiles, maybe even chuckles.\u00a0 Not out of gleeful spite, but like a papa would grin as his child ran into a challenge and conquered it, coming out stronger at the other end. \u00a0We had a plan.\u00a0\u00a0 We woke up to rain at 5am, which had calmed to a light patter while we loaded our truck at a little after 7.\u00a0 In this neck of the woods, rain means no work, or at least delayed work.\u00a0 We went to the immigration office to check our friends out of the country (we had sadly neglected to do that the day before) and we had to send for and wait for the commissioner to come to work and stamp and sign their passports, which took time.\u00a0\u00a0 We arrived at the river, the border between CAR and Cameroon, and because of the unrest in CAR the border guards have new rules about checking papers and searching vehicles.\u00a0 So, in the rain, they checked our papers and did a cursory search and waved us on.\u00a0 We got to the border town and checked our friends into Cameroon, which took time.\u00a0 Then we were good to go.\u00a0 We had a plan.\u00a0 To arrive to Yaounde by 7pm, given the delays.\u00a0 The dirt road was muddy, and had deteriorated so that Roy was driving slower than usual.\u00a0 We came upon a flash flood over the road, so Roy put on the 4 wheel drive and plowed through it, putting a layer of mud on the truck up to the door handles.\u00a0 That took time.\u00a0 We got to the pavement – YIPPEEE!!!! – for the last half of our long days’ drive, but decided that we really needed to get the mud off the truck at a little car wash stand.\u00a0\u00a0 That took time.\u00a0 We arrived to the outskirts of Yaounde a little after dark, and were making our way in the bumper to bumper, in the dark with no streetlights, crazy, horrible, but typical traffic.\u00a0 That took time.\u00a0 Then we heard a screench crunkle sound on the back right side of our truck as Roy was inching his way forward, at maybe 4 mph.\u00a0 Someone back there, in the dark, started yelling, “you ruined my car!!!!”\u00a0\u00a0 Then, there he was, a man in a suit and tie, standing in front of our truck refusing to let us move forward, even to pull over out of the traffic.\u00a0 People were honking and trying to pass around us on a very tight 2 lane road.\u00a0 Roy was saying “I didn’t hit anybody!”, and a couple of policemen (very calm and polite) arrived.\u00a0 We explained that we needed to get our friend to her flight on time, so they took our truck papers and let us go on the promise that we would return to the nearby police precinct.\u00a0 We went to our friends’, the Turks’, home, where they were waiting supper for us, arriving at about 8:30pm, I’m guessing.\u00a0 Roy and Luke Turk and a very helpful and knowledgeable admin guy, Norbert, went to the police station.\u00a0 With prayerful hearts we watched them go off, hoping for the best but thinking of the possibility of arrest and of vehicle impounding… \u00a0\u00a0We as yet did not understand what actually had happened.\u00a0 They got to the police station indicated, and they said no report had been filed but that they had heard the news of it on their radio system.\u00a0 He told our guys to go back to the road and look for a policeman.\u00a0 In the dark, where?!\u00a0 They went back there, parked, and had just started to look when a policeman walked up to them and proceeded to help them.\u00a0 He filled out Roy’s ID information and calmly handed back all the truck papers, asked how long we’d be in country, commented on the insurance claim, and that was that!\u00a0 He read to them from the accident report that the man who yelled at us about ruining his car had opened his door without looking, and we then understood that his door crumpling was what we had heard.\u00a0 So we have a long scratched up dent on our truck, but no one was hurt and we had the best possible outcome of a bad situation – no fights, no bribes, no overnight in jail, and all our papers in hand.\u00a0\u00a0 Johanna got on her flight by way of a taxi, the Shinars were reunited and got a ride home so their 2 year old got to bed, we had a bit of a visit with Yaounde friends and we were in bed ourselves by about 1am.\u00a0 Roy has always hated driving in Yaounde, especially in the dark, so this was not the happiest thing to have happen.\u00a0 We had a plan, and things took time, more time than we expected, but we were protected from harm, and things worked out in the end.\u00a0 Thank you, Lord!!<\/p>\n

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