Pollmans driver wanjohi with 25 years experience guiding tours takes me across Kenya in his rugged truck
6am looking perfect, except now i have to full bags!
The road from Nairobi to Mombasa is very different from the verdant suburbs of Nairobi. Dry, dusty, empty except for some grey concrete industrial and commercial buildings. The landscape in the distance is scrubbily and dey. Lots of people in bright modem clothes carry shopping alongside the road.
Strangely, I see my $100k Lexus SUV everywhere in Kenya, even my hybrid version. Hmmmm. Must be a tough car to handle Africa.
Now in Masai land, white hibiscus-like flowers, apomea, a potato, line the roads, a sign of commerce, seeds dropped by fruit trucks from Mombasa. The flowers don't grow except by this road to the mobasssa sea coast.
Sissel plants leaves used for clothes fiber and stems for termite proof roofs
Termite mounds everywhere like the kakadu, but shorter maybe 1 to 2m
Masai keep donkeys
Masai Village life revolves around coca cola
Masai along highway
Scary slogan for a truck driver!!
Across border into Tanzania, my country now for 11 days. It was a real hassle, what you'd expect from Africa: guns, needless paperwork, waiting.. But no pics allowed.
Mmbaga and We headed to Arusha after serious deadlock on both sides of the border 
Longinto mountain means rock in Swahili
Volcanic rock from my meru and kilsmsmjaro makes it hard for anything to grow so the plains are barren
Masai market north of Arusha on slopes of my meru
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