Eric arrived at 7 a.m. and we loaded my bag into the car.  Off to Guy's to pick he and Marie up.  And then we headed to Santa Lucia where all four of us traipsed inside to buy breakfast.  Between the deli bar and the bakery we each found something appetizing.  By 8:30 we were across the city and heading out.  Before long I fell asleep.  Didn't even see the Sanaga River.  And that's the way the trip went, sleeping for a couple of hours, awake for awhile.  We traveled without incident.  We arrived at Makenene around 11:30 and stopped for lunch.  That's where the pay toilets are.  With the semi clean facilities.  No toilet seats of course.  We each settled on something for lunch and bought drinks.  Thirty minutes later we headed back to the car.  About an hour later we arrived at Baffoussam where the roads were terrible.  Millions of serious pot holes.  We wove in and around them, avoiding as many as possible.  Eric said we were dancing with the road!  He learned to drive taxi in Baff. so knew the area well.  He told us that in those days you could travel from Baff. to Bamenda in 25 min.  Today it takes 2 hrs. and 30 min.  Quite a change.  Back when he was a little boy it took four days of serious travel to get from Bamenda to Mbingo Baptist Hospital.  Today it is a 30 min. drive.  Bamenda is a good sized city in a bowl, surrounded with high mountains.  The roads improved as we climbed out of Bamenda, and in no time at all we arrived at the hospital.  It was 4:30 p.m.  How long does it take to drive to your doctor's office?  

We discovered that Guy and Marie had rooms in the guest house, but there was nothing for us.  But we were able to find two available rooms in the new student hostel.  Everything was lovely and well thought out.  But the execution of the plan involved the usual issues.  For example the toilet ran 27/7.  The shower dripped all the time.  Sometimes there was hot water and sometimes there was only cold.  We took showers either way.  My door would not close without being locked.  And the bathroom door was too large for the opening.  I saw a couple of months worth of tweaking that Jim could do, if only he were available.  Since we didn't have reservations to eat at the guest house, we went to the canteen.  They offered such delectable menu items as cornchaf, water ero, foo foo and jama jama, ah-choo, and on and on it went.  I ordered tea.  It didn't take me long to discover that tea was simply the act of drinking something hot.  I needed to specify "tea leaves," "Ovaltine," or "Nescafe."  Tea leaves contained enough leaves to read your future.  But it was hot and tasty.  At 8:30 p.m. we each headed for our beds and a good nights sleep.  Our doctor appointments were for 8 a.m. Tuesday.