Today we left Nairobi after breakfast and head north to Meru. This is where our mission work will take place. But first we had to get out of Nairobi. That was an adventure.
Nairobi is in the process of building new roads all over the city. But for now they've torn up roads to prepare for the better roads. So everywhere we went we were in traffic jams. We took forever to clear the city.
Even as the traffic seemed to never move a motorcycle would zip by. Or a street vendor would stand in the street offering fruit for sale to passing buses. And if the traffic was slow and there was space, the drivers created their own lane until the space ran out.
After leaving Nairobi, we headed north passing by the west and north side of Mount Kenya. The reason for going that way instead of the shorter way along the east side of Mount Kenya was to stop at Trout Tree restaurant.
The restaurant is part of an active trout farm, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The restaurant itself is built into a huge fig tree. Everything except the outdoor kitchen is suspended in the air. The monkey sitting in the top of the tree didn't seem to mind us too much. However, the gander that was by the playground hated us!
The food was amazing at the Trout Tree, as has all the food been. But everything isn't amazing. Seeing the people selling almost anything along the road has been hard. They are a proud people reduced to begging for people to stop and buy from them. And as we drove the homes we passed became smaller and smaller and looked less like a home and more like a metal shack.
We finally made it to Meru, but only after slowing for sleeping policemen all along our root. "Sleeping policemen" are speed bumps placed on even major highways to reduce the speed of vehicles. Which works well with the potholes, no lane lines, unmarked no passing zones.
Now we are in Meru at the Bio-Intensive Center. It is a place founded by the Methodists that teaches local farmers organic farming. Don and I are roommates yet again as we are the only males without spouses here.
Tomorrow morning we shall visit a local high school to see how secondary education is done here. In the afternoon we shall visit the Mwaki orphanage to share lunch and some fun with them.
Tony
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