A list of things I saw being carried on the back of a bike during a rogue afternoon in Rwanda • Buttondown

A truck tire
A bag of rice that was taller than me
A stack of firewood
A fully stocked shop display rack of what seemed to be scarves
A door
A mattress (rolled, I would guess double. King single at the very least. )
A sack of tea leaves.
A sack of potatoes that was not taller than me, but that did look heavier than me.
A bundle of sugar cane several metres tall, carried vertically.

(Folks, this country is mostly hills.)

Two pallets of soft drink.
Three huge vats of what I'm reliably told was milk tribute from government issue cows.
Four vertically stacked milk crates full of (presumably full) beer bottles.
Five (presumably empty) water jugs.
Six gas bottles (hopefully empty).
Approximately thirty pineapples.
(A reminder that this country is literally all hills.)
Two dudes with their milk tribute, holding on to the back of a truck as it went up aforementioned hills.

Never more than one personon a bike, though, cause that would be a crime. However, acceptable combinations did include:
A guy and his potatoes.
A woman under an open umbrella.
A guy and what appeared to be several weeks of laundry.
A guy and his shovel, taller than him, held vertically.
A guy and his saw blade, longer than him, held horizontally.
A women with an entire bunch of bananas balanced on her head.

(Seriously, I cannot stress enough that this nation is contianed entirely within a mountain range. Gorgeous? Yes. Easy territory for human-powered transport? Absolutely not.)