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LivingNotes
D AY 1
Notes & Thoughts
I h a d a n a g g i n g f e e l i n g a l l w e e k b e f o r e l e av i n g. S o r t o f h a l f - w o r r i e d , h a l f - u n s e t t l e d . N o t t h a t I s h o u l d n’ t g o , n o . Ju s t c o u l d n’ t g a t h e r t h e e x c i t e m e n t . Not nearly the same as I felt a b o u t g o i n g t o Ta n z a n i a . Maybe it was the fact of too many things to do with little time to finish, maybe it was the unexpected life situations that threw me off, or maybe it was just plain exhaustion. Who knows. Human, after all… . . . T h e t r av e l e x p e r i e n c e w a s . . . d i f f e r ent. So much time and trees wasted in extra documents that HAD to be on a pap e r, t h a t n o o n e e v e n c a r e d a b o u t . E x t r a h o u r s i n l i n e s a n d w a i t i n g t h a t d i d n’ t m a k e s e n s e a n d c o u l d h av e b e e n e a s i l y av o i d e d . To p p e d by 2 7 h o u r s o f t r av e l . . . Ke n y a , g e t t i n g t o yo u i s e x h a u s t i n g. B u t ! G o o d m u s i c , f u n m ov i e s e l e c t i o n a n d t h e d r i v e r w av i n g a h u g e n a m e p l a t e w i t h “ O l y a H i l l ” w h i c h w o u l d h av e b e e n i m possible to miss, were the best part of the t r av e l . M a d e i t m o r e f u n a n d e a s i e r.
Nice hotel room has food waiting for us, even though we arrived close to 1am instead of 11-sh pm as expected. T h a n k h e av e n s f o r k i n d h e a r t s a n d g o o d h o t e l s . S h o w e r, a n d q u i c k s n a c k , a n d I d o n’ t e v e n r e m e m b e r h o w m y e ye s c l o s e d . I do remember how they opened though. To s o m e s o r t o f a p a r t y m u s i c a n d v o i c e s . Market! There is a MARKET r i g h t o u t s i d e o f o u r w i n d o w. My hands are itching for a camera. C a n’ t w a i t t o g e t o n t h e s t r e e t s … . . . B u t w hy b a r s o n e v e r y w i n d o w I c a n s e e o u t o f t h e h o t e l ’s c a f e ? A n d t h e h o tel itself... more like a fort with all the g a t e s a n d s e c u r i t y c h e c k s . D i d n’ t n o t i c e t h a t a t n i g h t . To o d a r k . P r o b a b l y, t o o t i r e d t o p a y a t t e n t i o n , t o o . “ Yo u a r e s a f e i n t h e c a r, i f yo u s t a y i n s i d e, b u t n o t s a f e w a l k i n g, n o ” , - s e r v e r ’s a n swer to my question makes my heart sink. S o . . . H OW a r e w e g o i n g t o d o what we came here for?
