Money

Imagine a world without credit cards, almost no one takes them. Then imagine that the closest ATM is about 90 km away and there's only two banks that have them. Even in the cash based society of Italy(everything is negotiable and no one really wants to pay taxes on that money anyways) there is still access to funds. Here we have to plan a whole day to go take out money. We leave very early so that we can take out money once before midnight on the west coast and then we go back again after midnight so we can get out enough money to last us until the next time we can come (we're killing time right now until we can go back for round two). On the radio are ads trying to convince people that banks are stable and safe places to put their money but its a tough sell. The only places that take credit cards are the nairobi hilton and some larger safari companies, [possibly some places on the coast where wealthy europeans and indians come to play. Even then there is a 5 to 10 percent surcharge to use one.