Driving around town

I drive 5 kilometers to take the kids to school. 10 to go there are back. That's 6.2 miles total. You would think this would take, I don't know, 10 minutes or so. I wish. It's about a 15 minute drive one way. We leave the house at about 7:45 and I get to the hospital about 8:30 (as it often takes a few minutes at school with Silas before I can leave). 

Why does it take so long? Because these kind of trucks pull in front of us. Motos fly by. Kids dash out into the road. Donkeys, cows, sheep, goats, dogs, sometimes horses and even camels walk down the road or straight into your car. People selling tomatoes, lettuce, onions, or fish flood into the streets so the path is too small to pass. There is no logic in the traffic either. Rarely ever would a moto stop to allow you to get through. Instead they push their way through as well as the ten behind him so that you cannot move. I have videos of travel through town but they cannot load tonight. Maybe another day...

One nice thing about the travel is that kids don't have to be restrained. Since we only go 10-20 mph around town, we don't make them sit in car seats. And on special days, they can even sit and drive with us (this is more of a Brett thing than me). However the other day I had to take Silas to school and he hadn't been in awhile due to sickness and travel so I let him "drive" to school as special treat so he'd be happy to go. He looked so darn cute with my sunglasses on that I had to snap a picture.