Safely in Kenya
The last 26 hours have been filled with lots of travel activities. We left Pennsylvania by coach bus Sunday morning before 5:30 am and had smooth sailing to JFK airport before 9:00 am. It was a lot different than if we were leaving on a workday! Our departure was only slightly delayed from the 1:45 pm schedule, and we had an uneventful 13 & 1/2 hour flight to Nairobi. We made it through Customs with the usual amount of underhanded agents trying to extract their standard “duty” (read: “graft”). for the vision care and other supplies we are bringing into the country to give away. It’s become just a normal hardship of doing business here. We got checked into the airport Crowne Plaza Hotel, and their hotel bus took us to the Karen area of Nairobi for lunch and a visit to the popular Giraffe Centre. Here, you get to see Rothschild Giraffes up close and personal and to feed them by hand from the elevated walkways. We got a chance there to finally take a Team picture, since we’...
