odds and ends

Dust devils; roasted plantains, cassava, meat on a stick; children everywhere; banana trees and red soil; bicycles carrying passengers, jerry cans of water, timber, bags of charcoal, furniture, crates of soda, chickens by their feet hung from handle bars; women with infants tied to their backs; piles of freshly made red bricks; thatch roof mud houses; lima alpha 75, how do you read me?; highways of barefoot children in a rainbow of school uniforms; cattle with enormous horns; people smiling and waving; girls with yellow jerry cans waiting in line for the hand pump to collect water; women with parcels on their heads; land cruiser, land rover, range rover; highways lined with large sacks overfilled with charcoal for sale