My stint working with CHES in Kakamega came to a close in early November, and since then I've been on the road on the Yahama 100, and what an amalgamation of experience the past ten days have been.
- hiking the rim of dormant Menengai crater
- stuck in a thunder storm in Menengai village, eating mukomu with locals, and fixing the bike
- riding cold at altitude on the equator, in diesel and dust
- visiting Nakuru where man began his story
- leopards lounging in trees, gnus migrating
- cheetahs on the hunt, and the unlucky Monday for a warthog
- hippos wallowing, giraffes loping, ringed mongooses racing,
- drinking tamarind juice and cassava chips in Mombasa
- playing marbles with kids, and watching soccer with adults
- lions posing, ostriches strutting, vultures and marabous picking bones on the Mara
- elephants dexterous trunks, and impressive scats
- chatting with old colonial Poms at the sailing club
- walking 14thC Swahili ruins
- marvellous birding (saddlebills, kory bustard, fish eagles, weavers)
- hyenas yipping and laughing at night
- swimming Indian Ocean waters
- vervet monkeys in baobob trees
So these are some things I wouldn't have experienced on Dysart Rd in mid November, but the one I'm missing on Dysart today is Kims b'day, so have a good one darlin' - see you for new years. with love - H
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