Bamenda: bi-monthly adventures

I generally go to Bamenda twice a month, once with the whole family and once with Elias.  Today, Elias and went together to shop for Abby and look around town!  It is almost an hour and a half drive these days, but we make the most of it.

Our first stop is usually meat.  Today, the meat was especially red (that is good), but I noticed that it was still twitching!  Now, that is fresh meat!

Next, we went to see my friend who is a coffee executive making the best coffee in the country from beans right in our area.  We had breakfast together and he introduced me to an espresso type of coffee they are now making...I didn't know how much I would like it!

After most of our shopping, I dropped our weed-wacker off for repairs at the shop of one of the main motorcycle guys in town.  I test drove a used Honda 600 Translap that he has been telling me about.  It was really nice.  I would really love to buy it as I had to sell my first motorcycle before our furlough.

We left Bamenda with most of our mission accomplished (no dog food in town that I could find) and started the long drive back.  Elias fell asleep after Sagba and was jolted awake a few times as I swerved to miss a pothole or drove through one.  The rode is definitely the worse it has ever been from Sabga to Ndop.  Here is a picture of repairs going on to the gutters in the road that were ripped up in a storm a few years ago.  All in all it was a good day in town.

Elias and Elena always love pointing out this waterfall as it re-appears every year around April or May.