Kenyan Roadside Sights

We just returned from a trip to Nairobi. Traveling in Kenya is quite an experience as your driver zigzags all over the road to find the smoothest section with the least and shallowest potholes. Even in Nakuru, the fourth largest city in Kenya, we had to stop to allow cattle to pass across the road in front of us!

You know you are in Kenya when you see . . .
. . . motorized vehicles sharing the road with donkey drawn carts.
. . . vendors along the side (and sometimes on the road) selling produce.
. . . car washes located along streams and rivers.
. . . rocks being crushed by hand.
. . . maize (corn) drying on tarps in the sun.
. . . mothers walking and working with babies tied to their backs.
. . . men, women and children digging (hoeing) in their field by hand.
. . . children playing with homemade toys made out of plastic bags, plastic lids and maize stalks.
. . . partially completed buildings. (They don’t get loans here to build homes. Instead they build when they have money. That means they might be building a house for several years before it is complete.)
. . . young children (as young as 4 years) walking places unattended by an adult.
. . . men and women laying on a grassy spot taking a midday rest.
. . . something blooming every few feet.
. . . cattle, goats and sheep grazing everywhere.

Nairobi is the largest city in not only Kenya, but East Africa. For us Nairobi is a great place to visit because . . .
. . . the internet speed is much faster.
. . . you can find real DVDs, not pirated copies.
. . . many restaurants there have food resembling something you could order in the United States.
. . . you can browse in a bookstore.
. . . you can see a movie in a theater even if it might not be your favorite type of movie.
. . . you get excited when you find groceries like Dream Whip, lasagna noodles, green chilies, cream of mushroom soup, Coke Light (diet Coke) etc.