Yekepa, Day 3

Our third day in Yekepa was the day that we were waiting for...the first delivery of shoes was to go out. The route to the villages of Lugbe and New Yekepa were set, and it was an extremely difficult ride. Let's just say that some bike accessories were lost. Our stop in New Yekepa was unbelievable...it was like we were in a movie. When we rolled into town, a couple hundred villagers surrounded us and were singing, dancing, playing the drums, giving us hugs. The song that they were singing was a traditional welcome song.
It was unbelievable. I'm pretty sure that most of the dirt bike crew were choked up on this visit. I have a ton of video so you can experience a bit of it for yourself.
We sat in a circle in the middle of the village with the pastor, the chief, and the elders. We presented them with the box of shoes (all of this for a box of shoes?), and we were given a platter of fresh bananas. Can't wait to post the video of this, which includes Justin's honkey-taculous dancing.
Seems like a dream now...a good story to tell the grandchildren.

I fired up helmet cam on Day 3. Have some good video of the jungle rides. Will get those up once I can get some bandwidth. You'd think you could get some decent Internet service here in the middle of the jungle.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, The Virus and I went down on Day 3. I was checking out a village on my left, and didn't notice that the bikes ahead of me had stopped until it was too late. My last minute evasive manuever was too sudden and the bike went down hard. The Virus lost it's headlight and both turn signals...I sustained minor cuts to my hands and a bruised hip. Video coming soon. ;)