Despite my earlier reservations, it only took around half a day for Nanyuki to shift from being a strange land rife with potential dangers to my new home. I love waking up in the morning and seeing the gauzy form of Mt. Kenya through the filter of my mosquito net, which hangs from a four…
Category: Kenya
Nairobi, Nanyuki and the Tyranny of “You’ll Be Fine!”
If I had to chronicle all the times I felt scared while I was traveling, you’d wonder why I do it at all. I feel scared on the plane (it’s going to crash); I feel scared in cars (they’re going to crash); I feel scared walking down the street (I’m going to trip, fall into…