Travel day #3

Today was the last of our travel days on the beginning end of our trip. After our late arrival and hitting the sack around 4 AM last night, we finally got a chance to sleep in comfortable beds, even though it was only for a maximum of about five hours. We were at the Hilton Hotel, just outside the airport in Nairobi. Everyone slept well and started on the road to recovery to get on track with the new time zone, which is seven hours earlier than Eastern time. We had a nice breakfast at the hotel this morning and got underway headed toward Nakuru at just after 10 AM local time. It was a blessing to me to finally get back to having great coffee after nearly 3 days of no espresso. I felt much better after three quad shots from their great machine! 

We headed straight to the A104 highway and stopped in Naivasha for lunch. This is the main highway but is only two lanes in most areas, one each direction, and it's the main thoroughfare between Mombasa and Eldoret and continuing on to Uganda. It's a heavily traveled road with lots of crazy truck and matatu traffic, so there's a lot of praying that goes on for safe travels both before and during the trip. Our travels take us through some beautiful scenery, particularly overlooking the Rift Valley, which goes over 4000 miles, beginning in Jordan in Asia and traveling all the way to Mozambique. Today was rather hazy, which is common, but the views are beautiful on a clear day. 

We arrived in Nakuru at the Tumaini Cottages and Conference Center in time to unpack all our Team supplies before dinner. This will be our base for the ten days we'll be here before beginning our journey home. We followed dinner with our first Team meeting to get people familiar with the new vision equipment we'll be using for vision testing and production of glasses for patients who need them. Our clinic tomorrow at a church near the Gituamba community will be our first experience using this new system. 

Tomorrow's post should be much more interesting than a travel day! We look forward after all this travel of having a day of ministry work. Please hang with me for a glimpse of that ministry tomorrow with lots of pictures.