Holiday Inn Mayfair Court Nairobi

... I have become a great travel team though, I think a trip like this in such close quarters really teaches you to respect your partner, because you need them, and when they arent happy neither are you.


Business comparisons to The Wild
When you watch a lion hunt a water buffalo, you really observe patience. They walk extremely slowly and will sit behind a rock for hours waiting for ...

... 500 dollar permits are valid for that one specified day only. HOWEVER, after 2 hours we push back…sleepy, dozing, and take off.

You’d have thought dinner at the lounge was enough, but the theme for our entire 30 hour transit time to Kigali was to prove to be “it’s there; I’m bored, let’s eat”.

We land into Nairobi two hours after our scheduled 6.30am arrival. Aika had already warned our layover was too short to make ...

... I was walking through a rainforest. There were numerous hills and the beautiful Mt. Kenya was in the background. Throughout the drive, the scenery turned to more of a desert with miles and miles of flat, sandy/dirt ground along with a few trees. This town of Nanyuki (the closest to the Mugo's house) is at the base of Mt. Kenya and has experienced a ridiculously long drought causing the land to be all dried up. Driving from the heart of Nanyuki to the Mugo's house we ...

... being able to feed them from your hands while they left it drooping with their saliva.

I then went to see the Karen Blixen house/museum of Out of Africa fame. Such a beautiful house in an amazing part of Nairobi with beautifully landscaped gardens. This is where they actually filmed the movie and you can visit inside the house to see some of the original furniture that belonged to Karen Blixen along with the clothes and stuff that Meryl Streep and ...

... many marriages, and no laws set up for child support. Most of the time, if one wants to pursue any action, they cannot afford to do so. I was heartbroken for this mother, and disappointed in the system failing her. As we walked out of the exam room, there it was in the waiting room- the medication we had given her for her son. The next day, we asked Robinson if she ever returned for her meeting with Andrew or the medication, and he said no. Unfortunately ...

... to Elijah because I knew it is biblical, and the woman was a Christian. Yes, Dad, I named a baby after you! It was an honor and you, Dad, are an amazing man and maybe this child will grow to be amazing and beautiful like you J.

After that, we all kinda felt like our day was complete, but there was more to be learned. Rachel, a volunteer who heads the HIV home based care program, came to take us around and show us what she does. She goes around ...

... front of us carrying babies on their backs. The land was vast and scattered with beautiful Acacia trees. We saw the most picturesque scenes of tall, lean Massai men with shaved heads held high, dressed in their traditional red cloth draped across them that blew in the wind, holding long sticks and herding mass herds of goats or cows across the expansive, rolling hills of the Valley. We didn’t get a photo of this beautifully unique East African scene but when ...