The Road to Kericho, Part Two

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The land grew greener and more lush the farther we drove. We left the dusty little towns behind and passed through farmland. It has apparently rained here recently.

We saw plots of maize and other crops, and cows and goats in the fields (and sometimes wandering on the road).

There were lots of people walking or bicycling by the road. Many people were loaded down with heavy-looking pails or are carrying enormous bundles of sticks on their backs. Some bicycles carry heavy loads too, the "cyclist" pushing the bike from behind.

We also see people having a more relaxed time, sitting and talking in groups on the grass outside their homes, or lying on a comfortable knoll and contemplating the clouds.

Other people sit by the road's edge beside piles of vegetables and other produce. They call to us to stop and buy their wares.

At one place the truck must have slowed down enough for some reason that the vegetable sellers took their opportunity to leap up onto the sides of the trucks, hanging off the window ledges and shouting and waving vegetables.

Wayne, who was driving at the time, did some shouting of his own. He was most unhappy at the vegetable hijackers' liberties. But we let Wayne know that it was okay, and money and bundles of carrots changed hands.