In Which I Make Things Up as I Go

The driver / guide is Sammy. His accented English is perfect, but my hearing isn’t. This leads to an occasional misunderstanding on my part. Mostly it has led to me mislabeling things in a way I could never possibly admit to him. At one point, he told me that we were looking at a Gravy […]

Jambo from Kenya

When I checked into the hotel they asked, seemingly as a matter of routine, when my next flight was. That’s what happens when you stay at the airport hotel – they assume you are going somewhere else (because no matter how nice it may be, there’s usually not any other good reason to stay at […]

Preparing for the Rains

I bought the ticket for this flight back in November, and only after completing the purchase did I wonder, “Is that a good time to go to Kenya?” As it turns out, this isn’t generally considered a great time to visit East Africa, because April and May are the season of long rains. To be […]