We arrived in Nairobi today.

Our guide was there to meet us for our welcome briefing.

We then went out to the Kobe Tough bead making enterprise that helps Massi Women whose families have been placed in poverty by the recent drought. The Massi men can’t marry if they don’t have enough cattle to pay a dowery. This has become an issue of late.

We watched several women prepare the clay, roll it into different shapes, put holes through each bead and then glaze them.

There is a large kiln here where the beads are fired. After firing they are sorted, strung on thread or turned into jewelry.

There is a large and well stocked gift store here to purchase your traditional bead work in.

After this adventure we went to the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden for lunch. It is a beautiful, calm place with lots of greenery and space. It was built in her Camp. It is a fine place to eat and it is also a very nice hotel.

She wrote “Out of Africa” and lead a very interesting life. She arrived from in Kenya from Denmark in 1914. She met Denys Finch Hatton, an English nobleman in 1918. There life together was very interesting.

I will add more here today after tennis.

I am at cowboyproductions52@gmail.com if you wish to contact me, R.C. Hand

Photos and videos are on Facebook at R.C. Hand. I promise to put ore photos here soon.

“Sunrise, Sunset,” my book of short stories and “Kazu, son of Oshida Kamasaki, ” my ancient Asian adventure romance are now also available on Audible.