On the way to visit the 2 churches

WE saw quite a few anthills from as small as three feet up to about ten feet. I was going to have my photo taken as we came back, but we taveled in the dark on the return trip. These were the closest camels that we saw.

 

Photos taken in Lodwar as we were leaving.

Lodwar continued:

Sunday afternoon, we met with pastor's George Lokwawi and Boniface Lokuruka to plan out the week. We have several churches to visit and a church building to put up. We also decided to bring food, as well as building supplies to the church we are putting up in Lorugum because the drought has really raised the price of food around here and many people do not have enough to eat.
Mike was to go early with the pastor's to buy the building materials and they were going to purchase the food and get an early start out to the bush. Well, this is Kenya. WE ate lunch and left at 2:30, but still had to stop and get fuel, plus stop by and re-negotiate with the "fundi" or contractor who will build the building.
The bush reminds me over the area around Yuma, Az., except the trees look different, the people are different and a lot more ant hills and camels, it really felt good to be there even though it was hot. The rig we were in had no A.C. of course and in Kenya you always load more people than space.

Mike and I arrived in Lodwar Saturday afternoon and were met by some local pastors. We were taken to our lodgings and later had dinner at pastor George's house. Sunday mike preached at a local church. We all went to lunch at a restaurant outside of town.

Lodwar reminds me of the Yuma, Az area. The homes and roads are similar to San Luis Sonora in the '70s. At the convention center the trees look almost like mesquites....except there are monkeys playing in them! I have not be able to get a good photo of them yet. Re: the airplane engines, they are just off the runway. Mike said he did not want to know the story behind them :)

Frank and I traveled

back to Eldoret Saturday morning, as I had a 3pm flight to north to Lodwar. Pastor Mike had boarded the same flight in Nairobi so we sat together. In Eldoret Frank and I had brunch, and went on a search for a hat I wanted.  As we came into town there was a hotel with thatched roofs, also a very large building under construction with tree limbs as the scaffold. We passed a bakery that had a heavenly aroma being sent out into the street. We also went by Moi University were a professor teaches that my wife knows.

Frank and I had dinner with Pastor Moses and his family. They have 3 girls and a boy, plus 2 young ladies staying with them to go to school. My donation to the dinner was a package of Guerro flour tortillas.

Friday I wrapped up training with Frank and Moses on their machines and software. We took a break and went to bungoma for lunch at the Elegant Hotel. World vision was just ending training on their Save The Children program so it was a full house.
I enjoyed Down Hill Springs restaurant and Hotel getting to see people that I knew from previous trips. The hallway to my room has bars and is screened. Looking down is a local dirt road where a lot of foot and vehicle traffic is. In 2015 I told my buddy Dave Johnson that the hall

is the muzungu (foreigner) zoo, as we were caged in and fed...."look a fat one, hey I see a tall one!"