Heading to Africa

After 30 plus hours of travel we arrived in Nairobi around 11 at night. The humid air offered quite the contrast to cold windy weather we experienced on the tarmac at Heathrow. Stepping into Nairobi International was like stepping back into the 1970s. Blue ratty carpet and funky colors. It is easy to see that we are now in Africa. We hooked up with our Driver Samuel who took us to the Mayfield House, home of African Inland Missions.

The first thing you notice once you jump in a car in Nairobi is that the roads here are very interesting, if not downright bad. I guess they have a policy here that once things are` paved that should do it for life. Huge potholes abound and places were a new road meets an older one have three to four inch drops in pavement. Travel on the main roads here involves accelerating up to 40 of 50 and then slowing down to 10-15 mph to navigate through a maze of road obstacles. If there is a construction project, traffic just shoots over to the oncoming road across the dirt or mud or whatever. All the houses are compounds with Barbed wire and fences with guards posted at the doors. We drive from Jomo International Airport on the Mombassa Road and head into town. It is 111:45 know and there are lots of young male Kenyans just hanging out on the street.
After we were woken up at 3:30 by the local rooster we set about figuring what the next step would be. Team meeting at 9:00 so we are prepared to hit the ground running with the construction once we get out to Kipkarren. Just a short plane ride and then an hour drive to get there…more to come later.

Peace.....