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  Nairobi, Kenya
Thursday, February 15, 2007

Took an easy bus ride up to Nairobi  to visit my friend Kevin Boherer, a friend from Mauritania, it was long but I knew I could rest once I got there.  I met Chris Snipes at the Norfolk hotel...he was also in Mauritania(coming inas I was going), and I hadn't seen him in 17 years!!! He was also there to visit Kevin from his 'adjudicating' work in the US embassy in Poland.  We were whisked off to a restaurant by Kevin's driver Benjamin while we waited to 'pick' Kevin from the embassy at the end of his work day.  It was great seeing these guys, it is always grounding to see people that connect to your past, and they are alot of fun too!
Kevin had arranged a weekend trip with his friends to a beautiful house near Mt. Kenya and we were lucky enough to tag along.  We lived it up, playing croquet, swimming and drinking cosmos.  It was so much fun, the house was so beautiful, and Keven's friends were fun to hang out with.  After the weekend, Kevin, Chris and I headed to a lodge in Samburu for some game drives.  Benjamin not only drove us around all the dusty roads, but spotted alot of animals too.  We stayed in nice furnished tents on the river where we were surrounded by naughty monkeys poised to take any morsel of food they could snatch.  We headed back to Nairobi, more eating, more shopping, and then Chris had to head back to the cold north.  I tagged along again as Kevin had another weekend with friend's to see the cape town opera performing Porgy and Bess in Hell's Gate nat. park.  The scenery was amazing, we made a huge picnic and had one of Kevin's great drink concoctions. We camped and then took a hike around Crater lake the next day and had a langourous picnic with giraffes and zebras...so cool!!
Anyway, Kevin has been a great host, he has an awesome house with a pretty garden, two cute dogs, fun friends...I feel really lucky to have had the chance to see his life here!

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02-with a view of mt. Kenya!	03-sean's terrific cosmos on the terrace	04-serious boggle match in the living room	05-serious boules on the lawn
06-Benjamin	07-the samburu guards putting on a show	08-getting ready to jump	09-the best of the guards
10-bbq at the pool house	11-weaver nests in the acacias at samburu	12-samburu guard playing pvc flute	13-kevin and chris at breakfast
14-elephants in the river	15- reticulated giraffes having a snack	16-my tent	17-samburu houses
18-lunch at the equator	19-camels at the river	20-kevin lounging in his backyard	21-random side of the road photo
22-school kids	23-rusty nail cafe	24-kevin looking dapper	25-view of hell's gate park
26-the show before the rain started!	27-picnicing at the show	28-surveying crater lake (lots of flamingos)	29-you can't see... giraffes left, zebras right!
30-jackson the gardener with jack and tana	31-beatrice the housekeeper (my mom!)	32-our ugali lunch,beatrice, jackson, benjamin

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