Well I'll be. Apparently the Boda Boda (motorcycle taxi) gets its name from its original purpose which was to transport people across the border to Kenya. So people would stand on the side of the road and wait for a motorcycle to drive by and yell "Border?" to see if they could hitch a ride. This turned into "border? border?" and was corrupted into Boda Boda which now take you anywhere, not just the border. Pretty nifty, huh? Thank you taxi driver Israel for this piece of enlightenment.
I took a Boda Boda again, this time with a friend on the back (somehow I felt safer sandwiched in the middle) while I was carrying a coffee in one hand and groceries in the other (making the ride decidedly less safe). I learned an important fact, which is that if you accidentally tell them to turn right when you really want them to turn left, you actually have to step off the motorcycle for them to be able to turn around. U-turns with three passengers, not so much.
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