Nanyuki, Kenya

... a mid-sized truck packed with goats, then a wait and a 90-minute ride in a matatu (minivan) ending at dusk at Nanyuki in the shadow of Mount Kenya. We passed some Samburu villages, said to be one of only two Kenyan groups (with the Masai) who still wear ...

... the sun go down while simultaniously watching the moon come up over the other side. It's funny the things you notice while your away. In kenya the moon is upside down, like a smile. We all just want to get up there and turn it around. 6:30= Dinner 8pm ...

from A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit, this excerpt appeared in the July 2005 Harper's Magazine. (Well, yes, I'm still a little behind in my reading.) For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, ...

... days], and it was the main highway hundreds of kilometres long, not a park access track). From Chogoria, two matatus back to Nanyuki, breaking in Meru for lunch and finishing early in the afternoon. I gave Irungu my stick, which pleased him, as few ...