So – I went to Rwanda for two weeks. More about the trip later. I wanted to post one thing now. Right before I left on 9/27 for a two week trip to Rwanda, Sonia Palmer-Ghose, who I was travelling with, told me she had found out that no plastic bags were allowed to be brought into Rwanda.
See https://visitrwanda.com/facts/plastic-ban/
So I had to repack a ton of my stuff as I had used Ziploc bags to sort all sorts of things. I just got home last night and decided to take a pic of the bags and other containers I had used on this trip.
First, one of these things does not belong here. Yes, I found one single plastic bag I had accidentally brought, carrying some insulin pen needles. And most of the rest of these bags were ones my wife and son helped me find as I scrambled to repack.
In retrospect, given the massive number of plastic bags I was going to bring in I am really glad they have this policy as it forced me to bring things I would not throw away.
On side part of this story – just a few hours after I left, my family was added to with two cats we adopted via the UC Davis Orphan Kitten project. And one of them took a liking to the display of bags I put out.
Lessons learned: (1). It is feasible to not use plastic bags when travelling and (2) cats are both unpredictable and predictable.
