I’m en route to Haiti at the moment.
Here are a sample of tweets (twitter posts) from the bus between Port-Au-Prince and Gonaives where we will be providing medical care in a remote mountain location that is housing refugees from the earthquake but that hasn’t had medical care at all yet.
Just drove past tiny, meticulously painted market sheds – two of them were signed Patience Bank, & a Restaurant Calm. Both fit in my closet.
23 minutes ago via HootSuite
Dirt road, mud-dab huts with flooded yards, goats, bare-bottom children & a shed labeled “bank.” Suddenly I’m missing the tar stench. #Haiti
31 minutes ago via HootSuite
Road no longer paved – it’s tar gravel pinging on the bottom of the bus like shrieking popcorn on speed. Tar stench is intense #Haiti
34 minutes ago via HootSuite
@gruntdoc “@docgurley How long is this 70 mils as the crow flies bus ride going to last?” answer: longer than my bladder
44 minutes ago via HootSuite in reply to gruntdoc
Potty break: long walk thru large building to back . Potty is a drain-hole for rainwater, behind concrete wall. We are very grateful #Haiti
about 1 hour ago via HootSuite
Large cargo truck just passed, carefully stacked and loaded with 6-packs of empty Coke bottles…
about 1 hour ago via HootSuite
Halfway: PAP to Gonaives, heading to St. Martin. Seeing more & more rubble used to make pristine roadside drainage ditches! #Haiti
about 1 hour ago via HootSuite
Red-eye flight effect: Team members in deafening, rattling, bus dust-vortex, are impossibly sleeping w/ mouths open, necks at angles. #Haiti
about 1 hour ago via HootSuite
Driving to Gonaives loose livestock tally so far: 8 pigs, 2 chickens, 5 horses, 2 donkeys, 1 scrawny goat. Horn toots? 1 gazillion # Haiti
about 1 hour ago via HootSuite
Haiti supplies being packed on the bus.
@chemo_babe “we have airport bands in Nashville too” people the world over, getting their groove on – makes the de-planing SO much better
about 2 hours ago via HootSuite in reply to chemo_babe
We don’t have the exact address of where we’ll be doing clinics in Gonaives. Have to see logistics of where we can set up. #Haiti
about 2 hours ago via HootSuite
Lunch = white beard & hunk o’ bologna (lipstick pink). Nom nom…
about 2 hours ago via HootSuite
What looks like monster rice crispy treats – aren’t. Those are wire-framed mega cubes of rubble, used to shore up a drainage ditch. Woot!
about 2 hours ago via HootSuite
We’re driving past Canaan – an endless field of tents stretching up into the hills and north along the coast.
about 3 hours ago via HootSuite
Sooo much work has been done by the people here since Feb. It’s like the streets have all been swept, all the stalls neatened. Incredible.
about 3 hours ago via HootSuite
Going thru Citie Soleil, to Canaan (10,000 people relocated there from Petionville) + 40,000 more since (@ Mon Chez Moi) ow.ly/1r5P6s
about 3 hours ago via HootSuite
Look at how much you donated! Get a load of the supplies in the bus as a horrified voice asks “Um. Where’s the cooler?” http://ow.ly/i/4sDQ
about 4 hours ago via HootSuite
We’re dripping sweat & the wind is whipping up. Feels like some cooling rain (storm?) is on its way for our drive to Gonaives. #Haiti
about 4 hours ago via HootSuite
We made it! Our pumpkin bus rocked her hips over a speed bump high enough to be an Alp -we’re in MegaMart lot, stocking up supplies #Haiti
about 4 hours ago via HootSuite
We just did a Y turn in a 1-lane alley touching the walls each time (Harry Potter’s bus has nothin on us). We ARE local amusement #Haiti
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