home in the strangest places

Short and sweet, a few observations for today:

The ride from Nairobi to Nakuru is always interesting, marked by the random police, military, and highway patrol traffic stops. Really, we were stopped just to say, “What’s up?” Who would have thought that Weezy and Beyoncé would be advertising here alongside Man U and Nivea Cream for stretch marks?

I exploded a bottle of Coke Light in what I thought was the refrigerator, but was actually the freezer—a glass bottle. That is about standard, right Dad?

There is an entire line of cookies, crackers and candies named Tiffany, shipped from the UAE. And a Wool-Matt (say it fast enough, maybe with a foreign accent, and what do you think it sounds like?). And Reuben (for any of you that know him or any of the GTF group that met him) is a radio DJ on the weekends, which is entirely hilarious.

Send me the good vibes across the ocean…

tnick