Kenya road trip
We made a road trip to Nairobi, Kenya recently to attend EARM (East Africa Rep Meeting). It was 11 days, 1520 km (950 miles) filled with memories and new experiences. Our first stop was in Webuye to visit a Kenya MCC couple. Our previous post described our visit to our former school, Mosoriot Teachers College the next day. When we lived there during 1967-1970 there was only a very small market across the road. Now there are many shops and even a 4-story building.
After leaving Mosoriot we drove to Kapsabet, through Nandi Hills (where tea is still a big crop), to Kericho, and finally to Nakuru over a very stony, rough detour road but beautiful scenery. (All with many memories.) The next morning we found a flat tire!
On to Nairobi the next day to the Mennonite Guest House. Here we found the MGH that we remembered but also an expanded version. It has grown considerably but still has the beautiful lawn with huge trees—and still serves morning and afternoon tea. There are now tall buildings surrounding the Guest House. We visited our friends at their church, home, and school, but that’s the next blog.
We had 3 days of meetings. We took no photos of our fellow East Africa country representatives; we did get one of our area MCC directors.
On the return trip to Kampala we took the old escarpment road from Nairobi to Nakuru and then branched off to Lake Baringo. The landscape changed to very dry and scrubby, and along the way we saw sisal fields. Sisal fiber is used to make binder twine. We spent a glorious afternoon, evening, and morning a Lake Baringo – but again, that’s another blog.
We left the lake and drove up one escarpment, down across the Kerio Valley, and up another escarpment. Again, many memories of the scenery but the road is now good (tarmac) and there are many more people living in this area. At the top of the second escarpment is Iten at 8,000 feet—training ground of Kenyan and other Olympic athletes. On to Eldoret and then to Kampala past tea and sugar cane fields.
