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5:30 Breakfast
Posted: Jun 27, 2012
The corn flakes are damp But, oh, the creamy, sweet taste Of the Kenyan tea!
Kibera Slums 1
Posted: Jun 27, 2012
It is late, and the erratic WiFi in the hotel is preventing me from uploading pictures at the moment, so I will settle for posting mere words before heading for bed. Monday and Tuesday this week were exhausting days spent exploring just a ...
Nairobi Impressions
Posted: Jun 27, 2012
We arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at the wretched hour of 2:00am local time. The first thing that I noticed when deplaning was high humidity -- when our plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac, the exterior windows immediately ...
New Use for an Old Tomb
Posted: Jun 25, 2012
This post is coming out of order, but it was such a unique experience, I have been wanting to share it when I could. These pictures are from an excursion that we took in Addis Ababa last Friday to the Holy Trinity Cathedral. It is one of ...
The Stones of the Earth
Posted: Jun 25, 2012
So far, we have visited slums in two different areas: in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya. In Addis Ababa, it is estimated that anywhere from 65% to 80% of the city's 3.4 million people live in the city's ...