Car trouble

I'm now back to my precious internet! Apparently the hospital gets it by satellite and then has established a wireless network. I never would have expected that. Back to the story . . . yesterday was the drive from Douala to Bamenda (in the Northwest province of Cameroon). When Vincent, my driver, first picked me up at the airport I took a look at his car and wasn't sure it would make it all the way to where we were going. After a couple hours it turns out I was right. We pulled over to the side of the road and fortunately he was more resourceful than I would have been. There was a leak in the radiator hose, so after removing the "do not remove while hot" cap and letting the hot steam come out, he went for new water to refill the radiator. We were able to make it to the next town where after a short pitstop he was able to patch it back together and we were on our way! The picture below was taken when we were stuck on the side of the road (you can see Vincent coming down the road with the new water.

You will notice on the right side of the road a sign warning you about the coming speed bump. These aren't any ordinary speed bumps, the car literally scraped bottom when it would crawl over them. Maybe they could be more accurately described as speed mountains. At one point there were 5 in a row (a speed mountain range?). Comparatively the driving in Cameroon was not as crazy as India, but perilous nonetheless.