Honey on the hill

What a sweet day - Oh Layne  - try to beehive! 😁

As colleagues and I climbed Mount Ngulot, the rain only sprinkled -- mercifully, perhaps even forgiving us for daring to hike on the Mara during the rainy season. There have been countless days of rain mother nature so unrelenting and seemingly angry in her revenge for the environmental atrocities so carelessly committed throughout the world. Is this revenge? - or likely there is a more scientific explanation. I spose the later but as I increasingly lean toward Buddah's teachings - and can't help but think there is a karma angle to all this. Fuck the Nameste - climate change due to environmental degradation is a reality we all have to own.

Mother nature being cheerful that morning allowed the team of 10 to enjoy an awesome climb to the rocks that tower above the community we serve in the middle of the Mara. Along the way - we stopped to look at a  traditional beehive - somewhat modernized with aluminum sheeting but very cool and similar to the way it's been doing it for many many years. And a grand view of the lands that gave us the Lion King. Welcome to pridelands.

The weather has made our response efforts for Covid19 tricky at best.  As previously mentioned, the government in their efforts to contain the virus have understandingly imposed movement restrictions making it tricky. For instance - how do you get a journalist out to tell the story? While necessary - there is a dark under belly presented as border guards "cash in" on the opportunity. Questa e la vita!
That said - WE - the org I so proudly work for - and colleagues who share the responsibilities - continue to find ways around all obstacles in our path -- both figurative and real. Below are a couple shots from this week.

....all the while resisting the urge to "floor it" as the water reaches up the doors.

This is the road on April 25th ... earlier in the year we lost a landcruiser at this crossed.

I'm not sure when we came through here on Friday but it was within a few hours of the collapse - tricky business indeed.

Sunny dreaming of chasing cats

Chasing cats - Sunny is driving

I can't tell the story related to the picture beside but promise to do so someday. There are ears everywhere but just let me say that the freedom to criticize institutions in North America, Europe etc. is a luxury often lost on those who come from these far more democratic politically stable countries.

I'll come back to the story related to this picture at some point - but let me say it was taken in the hall of a Nairobi police station and I was there as "the good guy" but feeling all the while that things could go horribly wrong if there was a misunderstanding or an errant word passed across my cheeky lips.


Many people chose not to go to the Popo with a complaint  -- a reality appreciated by the criminals who ply their trades throughout this country.  One might say  to me - if it's so hard - and you don't like it -then leave. Well -- fair point. But just maybe talking about it helps shine the light of truth and justice that can lead to a better world for the good people of this beautiful land. A land mostly of Milk and Honey.

Thanks for reading ....Layno!!