We spent our last night in Africa in Nairobi at the same hotel where we started the Fairmont Norfolk. It was nice to get back into civilization again with a working wifi system, a TV, and a lovely place to have dinner. We retrieved our luggage containing our city clothes that we had stored there, and immediately sent a big load to be washed.   The highlight of our stay in Nairobi, and probably one of the main highlights of our whole African trip, was meeting a young Nairobi man, Pascal, for breakfast the next morning. I had heard about him through my friend and writing instructor, Ellen Bass, and our tour director, Anastasia's Africa, helped arrange the meeting. My husband Bob and I spent an hour with him talking about the Kenyan orphan situation out of 30 million people in Kenya, 1.3 million are orphans caused by HIV/AIDS and cancer deaths of the parents the economy, the Chinese poaching, and the corruption in the Kenyan government. After breakfast we walked into … [Read more...]