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Road to Nakuru, August 18th, 2008 |
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August 18th, 2008
I got up this morning a bit early and waited for everyone else to get up. Patty was already u and working on getting one of the boys they are working with some much needed heart valves. Seems there is a surgeon coming in from the UK to do the surgery but they are trying to get the valves donated as well. Seems governments have little use for the “little people” and tariffs on such items are charged which makes no sense to me at all. The greatest resource a country has is it’s people and saving the life of this young boy may well have good consequences someday. History is full of stories where people from very low means rose to be a huge benefit to mankind. There is much improvement to be made here and the life of everyone is a hugely valuable asset if you ask me (you didn’t, but just in case, I give my opinion anyway. It is, after all, my blog). We walked around Dan and Patty’s place and looked at all they were growing. They have a passion for growing things and they have an impressive place to be sure. They even had a fish pond that could easily be converted to an aquaponics setup which Dan is very interested in. We will have to work on that later. After breakfast of eggs and jalapeno peppers (yes that’s right, Dan has some plants) we got around and left for the airport.
We made it there on time and got Martha dropped off. Allie and I then made our way to a filling station and got the van fueled up for the trip to Nakuru. We will be traveling without a local this time which will be a first but I have been on the road before. It was a bit of a chore getting out of Kisumu as I did not know which road was the main road out and every local we asked seemed to have a different opinion. We finally got on the right road and got on our way to Nakuru.
The road was good in places and we were able to make good time but there were also miles of road that looked more like a mars landscape than an actual road which made progress slow. We made it into Nakuru around 12:30 and called Denny Hubener to find out where he was. We met him at his ofice and proceeded to the orphanage he was working with. We were there to build the components for a barrel-ponics system as Denny’s home church had bought a couple kits from me. Since I was in country I thought it would be a good idea to at least build the components of one system so they could easily copy it for the other one. They are excited about bringing aquaponics to the area and the teachers there were excited as well. After getting the parts constructed we went to Denny and Susan’s house for the night. I got a shower and we all went out to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. The food was excellent and I had some very hot chicken with peanuts. Yumm!!! Allie really hit it off with their daughter Anna and they became instant friends. We went back to the house and watched a comedian on TV until we simply could not stay awake any longer. Don’t remember the guys name so I won’t be able to give him a plug but he was funny. It was then off to bed to try to get some sleep for the trip to Nairobi tomorrow.
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