TIA. This. Is. Africa.
These are the words our Squad Leader, Allison Johnston said as we got off the plane in Nairobi. TIA. Well. Since, the last blog, I’ve had dinner, slept for most of the 14 hours on the plane, and discovered that Kenya is nothing like what I expected. It is lush and green and beautiful. The sun blazes down on us, the only color overhead other than an azure sky. It is amazing here. Warm, but not humid.
So far, I like Africa. There are some things that take some getting used to – like fitting fifty people into two rather small buses and tying all the packs to the roof. And that fact that road here is a loose term for ‘surface mostly level enough to drive on’. And seeing giraffes not ten minutes from the airport. All things to get used to.
We left Nairobi behind, and drove to a place called Kijabe, which is rumored to have the best hospital in the country. Good place for World Racers to be. We stayed a Moffet Bible College, overlooking the Rift Valley (the apparently super famous Rift Valley that extends from Uganda), and it was one of the most gorgeous spots I’ve been to. Amazing sunsets, large monkeys crawling on the rooves of the bulidings, and the wind!! The wind whipped around at all hours of the day and night. It was incredible. Kijabe was also at 8000 ft about sea level, so we didn’t have to worry about Malaria meds, or mosquitos at all for that matter!!
I think I am going to like Kenya.
