You are probably wondering where we went ... sorry! We have been traveling around the country saying goodbye to family, going to weddings, and generally getting ready to go (in California a few weeks ago, Kansas last week, now in Illinois). We packed up and left Wisconsin a little more than a week ago and have put most of our belongings in storage (picture).
On Thursday, we will fly from St. Louis to Chicago to London to Nairobi arriving on Friday. We are SO fortunate to have friends in Nairobi who will host us for the weekend and then we will head to Mombasa by train early in the next week. During our travel times we will try to communicate by text message and maybe twitter (which feeds to Chris's Facebook) to keep people updated about our safe arrivals. We should have new contact information when we arrive, so we will try to update the blog with that.
All in all we are very excited and feeling very ready to go. We are practicing our Swahili and learning to wear lesos from our Kenyan friends in Milwaukee (picture), and reminding ourselves that the recent Midwest heat wave is probably nothing in comparison to the Mombasa weather we will face. We do have moments of nervousness, but Chris reminds me that it wouldn't be an adventure if there wasn't a little element of nerves about the unknown.
Our next post will probably be from Africa unless we figure out a way to post from airports.
Kwaherini! (Farewell!)
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