Kenya

Alarms went off at 5AM so that we could pack up and head out to meet our safari guide by 6:30 at the National Park main entrance. Nick and I managed to have time to get caffeinated and Millie lay in silence on the couch like this. I feel bad for her that she can’t…

Today was good for the soul. We did nothing. Millie brought me coffee and toast in bed, and when I finished those she brought me a second coffee. Then Nick had his turn in bed and Millie and I played various imagination games. She noticed a toddler outside and brought him a balloon. We have…

Kind of boring (but good) day today. We packed up our little apartment and hit the road. We are staying at another Airbnb so we stopped at a grocery store to get enough snacks and breakfasts for the next couple of days. We have discovered a new roadtrip snack that Nick and I have both…

Our Airbnb host connected us with a local guide to take us through the nearby Hell’s Gate park. We met our guide, Simon, at the entrance this morning at 9:30. Hell’s Gate National Park has no human-predators, so it’s one of the rare parks in Kenya that you can walk or bike through safely. Our…

We packed up the Nairobi Airbnb and headed out on what we thought would be an easy 2 hour drive to Naivasha. That sentence you just read? That’s a literary trick called foreshadowing. The first adventure was that Nick had found a midway stop: the Rift Valley Viewpoint. The Rift Valley is an interesting part…

What a day! Our alarms went off at 5AM this morning so we could be ready for our 6AM pickup. What is it about the anticipation of an early alarm that makes us sleep terribly? We were waiting at our gate by 6 in the chilly dark morning. We had previously considered self-driving a safari…

We were woken up this morning by Millie in the bedroom next to us screaming. We jumped out and ran to her to find her in bed after a very scary nightmare. She was half awake and had seen her backpack on the floor and thought it was my decapitated head. Yikes. This is the…

I’m happy to report that I’m writing this post from our Airbnb in Nairobi. No one checked for visas as we were leaving Dubai and upon arrival in Kenya we showed confirmation of our application and that was good enough to be let through. Their systems all seem quite brittle, which can either work for…