Traveling Back to The Compound

Day 10
7:00 Tent Breakdown
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 Leave for Nairobi
1:15 Arrive at Nairobi
1:30 Lunch
6:30 Dinner




The Flat Tire

   "We woke early to pack our bags. When we took down our tent, we took off the fly first and then moved our tent over to another spot to roll it up because there was potentially scorpions and snakes under the tent!! We did find one scorpion and several large millipedes." Yikes! To think I was sleeping over top of these bugs with only a thin layer of tent!
  We were all sad to say goodbye to Richard, he had been a wonderful host here in Eremit. The drive back to Nairobi took us up hill out of the Rift Valley. It was slow going. One of the trucks broke down and we had to squish people in; usually we travel with 13 people to a truck, but we had to smush in 20. It was fun to chat and pass around crackers and listen to our diskman's (yup!).
   "It's funny how the compound feels like home now." I also noticed after being in the arid Rift Valley how green the grass is here in Nairobi, and how it covers the whole ground. The Eremit campsite was all dirt with dry grass patches. The climate is significantly cooler here, I had goosebumps when the sun started setting. 10 years ago today I experienced the differences in elevation and that even though I was in Africa, it wasn't going to be hot all the time!