Rift Valley Dispatches: Home at Last

Rich writes about getting home -

Under an Acacia tree on our last Safari. From left to right: Dick, Jonathon, Kathy, Brad, Gretchen, Moses, Kendra, Joyce, Mary, Tina, Chuck, Eleanor, John, Sarah

It has been a very long "day" of travelling. It started Tuesday morning at the Leisure Lodge in the Mara at 7:30am with seven hours of driving over typical Kenyan Roads (very bumpy or washed out). We stopped for several hours at the Ewaso Ngiro clinic where John Sankok lives to visit with him and his wife Grace. We then continued on to Nairobi for an 11:30pm eight hour flight from the Jomo Kenyatta airport to London. In London the team got separated while leaving the plane and eight of us left on the scheduled flight and the last four had to be rebooked on a later flight. Another eight hour flight to Chicago and finally a one and a half hour flight to Rochester. It is good to be home!

The following photo albums have been updated with more pictures:
Monday at the Talek Clinic
The Incinerator
Talek 911
Painting and Interior Maintenance

Two new videos have been posted including: a video of the Talek Community Health Centre on YouTube. Also, young men in the Maasai tribe compete in jumping dances to see who can jump the highest with the best form; some male members of the team participated in an impromptu jumping session with our guides Jonathon and Moses on the last day of the trip. This is must see!

Lastly we met some great people on the trip.