If you aren't Dwight or Kathy, I should tell you about that trip now.
My brother Timm and I leave for Kenya on Sunday, June 26. We plan to be there for two weeks. We fly to Nairobi, where we plan to stay for one day before taking a bus to a town called Kisumu. From Kisumu we will hitch a ride to a place called Rusinga Island, a community of 15,000 in Lake Victoria, on the west side of the country. That's about it for the plan, though we have a few other things in mind we'd like to do. I'm a little ambiguous about what comes after that (and with good reason, because we really don't have a itinerary), but that'll just add a dramatic arc to this blog. A second good rule of writing.
I'll explain the connection with Rusinga in the next blog post, it's a good enough story for it's own spotlight.
We'll be dependent on the kindness of strangers, we're counting on friends of friends to be at certain places to meet us as we travel, and we'll probably make plans based on the local recommendations whenever possible. The idea of this blog is to be a place where we can post brief updates from Kenya over the coming two weeks, if you're interested in following the trip. If that proves impossible because of infrequent Internet access, come July 10 there will be a nice recap with photos and all that.
Last, about the blog's title. That's my pidgin Luo for "The Nelsons are going to Rusinga," based on a list of dictionary words someone sent me. It's not exact, but you get the point. (And you probably don't speak Luo anyway.)
But keep reading, and we'll try to keep this interesting. And maybe we'll teach you to say: "David and Timm, waweza kuiandika?"
(That is, "Please write it down for me.")
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