Rolf’s Place
We spent the night at Rolf’s Place, a beautiful mansion / bed-and-breakfast getaway in Nairobi National Park. It’s situated on a cliff over some sort of a gorge, and there’s this wooden bridge spanning the ravine from the parking lot to the property. Quite breathtaking! We ate a few meals in the restaurant which overlooks [...]
Lake Naivasha
4800 Randi and I went to Lake Naivasha last night. This satisfied two items on our fake scavenger hunt: the Great Rift Valley and hippopotamuses. Here’s the funny thing, we don’t have pictures of either of them; you’ll just have to take it on faith that we actually went there. It’s sad, I know, but [...]
Hakuna Hiatus
4682 I haven’t been on hiatus, I’ve been on holiday! Actually I’ve been working a lot, but I did make it across the border this past weekend for a little rest and relaxation. One thing I realized during my 24-hour stay in Tanzania was that my Swahili is permanently Kenyanized. I’ve already accepted that I’m [...]
Two Years in Kenya
It will be two years ago tomorrow that I moved to Kenya with Sara. After a few months living in Tala we were evacuated due to the post-election violence after Kenya’s 2007 Presidential election, but I came back soon after. In that period I’ve taught computer classes as a VSO volunteer, traveled all over East [...]
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.