Good Friday on the Road

It rained all night and was still raining when we left at 6:30 am.  After 1hour of driving we stopped at Kijabe to see Hargins and Nyangeu.  The child was sleeping and had experienced some fever during the night following her surgery.  We are still waiting on the neurosurgeon’s diagnosis.  After leaving Hargins home-made chicken soup, fruits, books and a small portable DVD player to watch some movies, we headed back up the hill in thick fog to the main road and headed for Naivasha.  As soon as we passed through, the cloud and rain cleared.  We stopped at the Delamere farmers market and stocked up on cheap fruit and veg.  Two hours later we were making great time and in Nakuru.  So far the roads were good and traffic not too heavy.  Only one stretch of road works to deal with which slowed us down a little.  It took longer than we thought to get to Eldoret, partly because the road was so severely ingrained by the heavy trucks going up the mountain and the ridge in the middle kept hitting the bottom of our vehicle.  We stopped once more to buy a bucket of potatoes for 80 shillings ($1)and then drove straight through Eldoret and onto Kitale.  Now that road was bad and 5 minutes of swaying around to avoid massive craters in the road, Agum started throwing up. But we finally made it by 3pm.  One neat thing we saw several times were church groups walking along the side of the road carry large crosses in remembrance of the day Jesus carried His cross to Calvary.