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Kenya: The People, The Places, The Culture (3)

November 20, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Party Time There’s probably no better way to convey one’s impressions of a different place than to describe how people have fun together. As it turned out, my pals and I were up for a good party back at the beginning of the month when my friend Joseph Gichuki decided to have a party for …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Gichuki (Joseph), Kenya - Culture, Kenya - Goats, Kenya - Parties

Kenya: The People, The Places, The Culture (2)

November 9, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

My plans for preparing a series of posts with my “closing” (you might say) comments as I prepare to leave Kenya were interrupted. Professional priorities took over, and we all know what that means in the scheme of things. “The best-laid plans,” etc…. So apologies to regular readers of these posts. Will hope to stay …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - Relations with the United States, Brooks (David), Creativity, Professional Opportunity, United States - Relations with Africa, United States - Security

Kenya: The People, The Places, The Culture (1)

November 2, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

As the professional assignment winds down and this homesick wanderer prepares to end his stay in Kenya, it seems appropriate to give some thought to what has impressed me about this beautiful land. That “homesick” is a little hard to explain, though, for despite the fact that I’ve been in Nairobi since last November 12, …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - Expatriates, Africa - The Great Four, Kamar (Nerisa), Masese (Charles), Opile (Geoffrey), SMR Africa, SMR International

Thika: The Fourteen Falls and the Blue Post Hotel (and its Falls)

October 20, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

There is much to see in the Thika area, and time spent in the Thika area is well worth the trouble. There is the beautiful Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park, described previously, and while I ran out of time and didn’t get to Lord Macmillan’s home or the home of Jomo Kenyatta, I had a …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Blue Post Hotel (Thika), Kenya - Fourteen Falls, Kenya - Thika, Kenya - Waterfalls, Thika Kenya

Yet Another National Park in Kenya: Ol Donyo Sabuk

October 19, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Not too far from Thika (of The Flame Trees of… fame), there’s a lovely mountain park that I did not really have on my list, but as I had not spent much time in the Thika area, why not? That’s what Saturdays in Kenya are for, right? It was a beautiful drive to Thika, once we …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - African buffalo, Kenya - Agriculture (History), Kenya - Ol Donyo Sabuk, Ol Donya Sabuk, William Northrop Macmillan

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