Have you ever eaten fried intestines for breakfast or drunk innumerable glasses of sweet green tea in one day? How about spending the night in a dried-up riverbed? Or transporting five policemen—for your personal protection?
Many Bible translators and others can recount amazing stories about travel in foreign lands. But next time you hear such stories, think about their very real safety implications.
Put yourself in the shoes of a translator and check out the advantages and limitations of different kinds of vehicles available for use on rough terrain.
Two JAARS personnel host an Off-Road Driver Safety Course in Ethiopia, where language workers are confronted with countless challenges, from baboons to logs, potholes to flash floods.