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Africa from the rooftops - East Africa Trip 1

About 6 years ago I started installing monitoring in for a small media company. A media company of course has good relationships with their customers i.e. television and stations.

The first installations I did was in East , , and . My first trip was kind of hectic, the logistics was screwed up totally and we had a lot to learn.

Our first mistake was thinking that renting a car and self driving is a good idea. The roads in these cities are atrocious, and the drivers worse. And the irony is that for the same money you can get a full time driver with a car of the same quality. Anyway on this first trip I was driving around in and dodging potholes and Kamikazes in cars.

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