For Mom, Love Steve

$1000US to climb Kilimanjaro.

$120-150US per day to visit Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti.

Touts on every corner wanting to sell the above.

I opted for plan D. A Banana Split at McDooleys and I left. Felt kind of bad at the moment as the Ngorongoro Crater is thought of as the 8th wonder of the world. Who can pass up the Serengeti? Well, sometimes you just gotta say no. The Banana split helped to soothe things over.

So now I am in Nairobi, Kenya. Very nice capital city an is as modern as anything in the states. It gets a bad rap as a crime spree city, (Nairobbery). For me, I see food on every street, electricity, water on demand, sodas for $.30, beautiful women wearing revealing clothing, and I even got to use my tent for the first time in three months. Being the closest thing I have to a home, my first nap felt like I had fell into a coma.

In Kenya, they have the Masai Mara (Serengeti.) The price is a bit more manageable so I am going to possibly take a trip out there. Gotta be able to say that I peed on the Serengeti.

Thats about it. The fast lane on the Gringo trail, make that the Mazungo trail.

Steve

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