After the overnight stop in Nairobi, 2Lt Underwood and I left for Eldoret. Our drivers picked us up in the morning after the majority of the rush hour traffic and we got on the road. It is about a 6 hour drive out there. Unlike Djibouti where we drive ourselves around and have a translator with us, in Kenya we have two drivers, Sammy and Alex, who provide the vehicles, driving, translating, and a host of other very helpful services, like price negotiating.
We stopped at this overlook, which was full of vendors pushing their goods. I grabbed a nice piece of fabric from one of them.
We ran into some baboons along the road. This mother and baby were very cute. It was tough composing the photograph without any trash in the background.
In Nakuru, we stopped at the village market and Kate went around buying things. I decided to use the fisheye just to change things up a bit.
Past Nakuru is the equator, which we just had to stop and have my picture taken. It was the first time I had been at/below the equator.
On the way to Eldoret, we inspected two job sites that finished last year and that had some warranty work. Something I noticed both here in Kenya and in Djibouti is that lack of maintenance and cleaning at these buildings that AFRICOM has provided.
The hotel in Eldoret was cool, we each had our own cottage, where a king bed was in the middle of the room and a half circle shaped bathroom was behind it.
While driving around downtown to get to a restaurant we saw this woman. I am astonished by the women carrying a variety of different things on their heads, the most unusual so far was a woman balancing a pick ax. This woman was balancing a heavy, large object, while swiveling her head back a forth in an energetic cell phone conversation. BZ to you ma'am.
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