Sept 4: Nairobi to Kitale to Kimini?? and Common Ground
Our local coordinator and host, Wendy, got us, well most of us, to the bus station and onto the various busses we were to take to our various locations.
Brooke, Theresa, Nate and myself boarded a bus for Kitale.
The ride was bumpy, and dusty and the bus often filled with disel fumes...
The landsape was pretty amazing though.
OK, here are some pictures of the scenery in Kenya between Nairobi and Kitale (on the western border with Uganda). First was the Great Rift Valley, speculated to be the site of the beginnings of human life. This is where the famous anthropologists (the Leaky's - not sure of that spelling) found the oldest existing human remains. As we were leaving the area where we could see into the rift valley, there was a really cool old volcano. Notice that it is missing nearly 1/4 of it's top. That must have been some serious explosion....
Periodically we would come across small, roadside towns. They really reminded me of the old west where they just set up a single row of buildings, bars and shops along the road....
After 8 extremely bumpy and jarring hours of breathing diesel and dust (including several hours of off-roading it in the bus because the road was washed out), we finally arrived in Kitale. We were met there by Joshua, the coordinator of the Common Ground project and the founder of the Pathfinder Academy (and also the treasurer for all of the 7th day Adventists churches in that region of Kenya, and a lot of other things as well.... we think he has a few clones).... After a quick meal in Kitale, we were loaded into a matatu (minivan that is used as a small public transit bus) and driven thru the small town of Kiminini to the Pathfinder Academy where Joshua lives and where we were staying. This is also the site of Common Ground (which is a program to encourage and teach sustainable business and agriculture practices to anyone in Kenya that will listen), and the Chris Halperin Memorial Clinic.
Kiminini:
Periodically we would come across small, roadside towns. They really reminded me of the old west where they just set up a single row of buildings, bars and shops along the road....
After 8 extremely bumpy and jarring hours of breathing diesel and dust (including several hours of off-roading it in the bus because the road was washed out), we finally arrived in Kitale. We were met there by Joshua, the coordinator of the Common Ground project and the founder of the Pathfinder Academy (and also the treasurer for all of the 7th day Adventists churches in that region of Kenya, and a lot of other things as well.... we think he has a few clones).... After a quick meal in Kitale, we were loaded into a matatu (minivan that is used as a small public transit bus) and driven thru the small town of Kiminini to the Pathfinder Academy where Joshua lives and where we were staying. This is also the site of Common Ground (which is a program to encourage and teach sustainable business and agriculture practices to anyone in Kenya that will listen), and the Chris Halperin Memorial Clinic.
Kiminini:
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