At 140km/hour who needs shoes?

So I'm back again from Western Kenya. I have to say first that traveling by bus is exhausting. After 7 hours getting to Kisumu I got into a matatu to go to the ARO center, about an hour's drive. The person that met me at the bus station helped me find the right one and told the conductor where I wanted to go...he even wrote the stop on his hand. Obviously that wasn't enough because they drove right past and I had to bang on the roof to get his attention so he'd get the driver to stop and let me off. We hadn't gone to far and he joked that he was just making sure I got my exercise. It would've been totally fine except that in getting out of the back seat of the matatu, my sandal broke! I guess Old Navy sells them at $4 for a reason. So there I am, walking down the highway with one sandal on, my back pack and bag...I got a few funny looks, the ladies selling vegetables at the turn off to the center had a good laugh. One of the guys from the center met me just down the road though and put my bags on his bike while we walked back so it wasn't too much trouble. I ended up borrowing a pair of sandals until the friday evening when one of the ladies presented my fixed sandals.

Otherwise it was a fairly uneventful trip. On Thursday I was with a group from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN that was visiting some project sites and then hung out at the center for some meetings on Friday. On Saturday I decided that 140km/hour is never safe. We made the drive from ARO to Kisumu in record time...which only meant I had to wait longer at the bus station. There are speed limits here but they don't apply to private vehicles...they should!