{"id":4216,"date":"2016-03-04T20:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2016-03-04T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:05:18","slug":"when-the-boarder-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2016\/03\/04\/when-the-boarder-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Boarder Closes…."},"content":{"rendered":"

We wake up at a quarter to 4 in the morning to hit the road. \u00a0We are driving down to the southern part of Senegal. \u00a0I bring the boys out to the car in their blankets so that they can continue to sleep. \u00a0Being the morning person in our family I take the first round of driving so that Joel can continue to rest. \u00a0I watch the road closely as I drive as there are very few road signs and it is dark. \u00a0This is my first time to actually drive these roads without Joel telling me where to go. \u00a0We are leaving this early because we need to be down to the boarder of Senegal and Gambia at 8 am, when the boarder opens, so that we only have to wait a few hours hopefully rather than 5 or 6 hours to get across. \u00a0We drive all the way there for 4 hours and arrive just a little after 8. \u00a0The last hour and a half of the drive was on dirt roads that were pretty bumpy. \u00a0We arrive there only to be told that the boarder has been closed because of a disagreement between the two countries.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The road up to the boarder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Closed? \u00a0Was that possible? \u00a0Had we driven all this way for nothing? \u00a0What now? \u00a0What do we do when the boarder is closed?<\/p>\n

Well… we turn around and drive back an hour and a half to rejoin the main highway and begin the 10 hours drive around Gambia to the other side of Senegal. \u00a0To be honest we were surprised for only a little and then we gulped at the reality of the drive ahead of us, got back in the car and started the trip again.<\/p>\n

\"14<\/a>
15 hour drive with only 2 bathroom breaks, our boys did amazing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For me this was a good illustration of what travel is like for us here. \u00a0What will go wrong? \u00a0We never know, but usually there is some hiccup in the road or plans that need to be changed. \u00a0Tomorrow we set off another drive, one day for me and 3 days for Joel with 3 boarders. \u00a0Pray for us as we face expected unexpected challenges. \u00a0Pray for patience when the days lengthen and endurance with the sun beats down.<\/p>\n

\"Sometimes<\/a>
Sometimes driving off the road is better than on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking forward to sharing with you all what God is at work doing all over West Africa!<\/p>\n

\"See<\/a>
See you on the other side!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We wake up at a quarter to 4 in the morning to hit the road. \u00a0We are driving down to the southern part of Senegal. \u00a0I bring the boys out to the car in their blankets so that they can continue to sleep. \u00a0Being the morning person in our family I take the first round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-4216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-updates-and-news","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-new-tribes-mission","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}