We got up at regular time and had breakfast at 0700 and got our luggage that was going to stay in Karen to the van so Charles and Chris could carry it to Chris’s house in Karen. We departed the conference center headed toward Mombasa at 0935 and were not looking forward to the scheduled 8 hour trip.
We will be staying in Mombasa area until Friday morning when we will return Ito Nairobi and drop off Lee at the airport. Lee will be going back to Birmingham on Friday for the Jotto Kenyatta International Airport.
The trip was long and very interesting and it was amazing except for a few zebras and baboons we saw no wildlife on the way to Mombasa. The highway was full of freight trucks carrying containers both east and west. It was interesting to watch Charles our driver maneuver around the trucks and cars. Everyone is very curious and on road rage was evident. I know drivers that would have killed about half of the people on the road.
You could find just about everything on the side of the road from fresh vegetables, meat, honey, wood carving to chickens. It is always interesting to see what they have. I purchased a slingshot for 100 Kush and will take it to Alabama to see if it will work and keep that cat off my front porch.
It took us a lot longer than we expected to get to Mombasa due to the road construction and heavy traffic. The last 20 KM took us about 2 hours but once we cleared the industrial area near the Mombasa airport the truck traffic greatly decreased then the problem was to get to the Milele Beach Resort. We got directions and finally got to the lodge and it was very nice. We got checked in and cleaned up a little after the 11 hours on the road and went and had dinner at the restaurant on premises.
Standard fare for dinner, typical Kenyan food, but it was tasty and the tea was great. After dinner I went and got that long awaited shower that was rather cool then I went to check out the internet connection. I was able to get a little work done and check my email but not upload any data. I will try again tomorrow to get some information on the blog and face book.
It is getting late and tomorrow we are starting late and going to Fort Jesus.
More Later
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