Kabarole [Fort Portal]
Fort Portal was quite an eventful trip. There are tales of children drinking coloured beverages in wine glasses; motor cycle accidents and concussions; a beautiful wedding and family gallivanting in forests that were planted by Queen Elizabeth of England! This is also a tale of extended unrelated family. We grew up with the Agabas in Makerere University and they introduced us to Aunt Betty [the late Aunt Gertrude Agaba’s sister] and her flock. So, when we heard Billy was off to marry, we grabbed onto the idea of a trip to Fort Portal. Ivan, even went as far as to pull out his fancy BMW motorbike in its first cross country journey. Sadly, about 2 hours into the trip, we got a call saying he, Ivan, had collided with a mindless boda boda rider who drove into the road, panicked and froze on hearing the loud roar of the BMW. The other rider survived, barely. We heard about concussions and a completely written off mot...