Day 56, 2011/06/26 Kisumu to Nairobi

Day 56, 2011/06/26 Kisumu to Nairobi

Day 56, 2011/06/26

David is feeling loads better. Amazing what a single rehydrate can do. After a quick breakfast at the Kisumu airport, we are back on our bikes to Nairobi. The initial road is a little frustrating, with loads of cars, buses, taxis and pedestrians. However, the road eventually clears, and the riding is great. After Ahero,the scenery becomes spectacular. Every corner, is a picture postcard moment,with endless tea plantations. The endless, lush green is an amazing sight. In places, the tea plantations go on as far as the eye can see, and in others, they terminate is amazing forests. Really amazing to behold. Finally, it is back onto the A104 and onwards to Nairobi. The driving just appears to get worse by the second and the last 200 km into Nairobi must be the most hairassing  thus far on the trip. 
The cars and trucks have a very interesting mechanism they use for allowing people to overtake. The vehicle been overtaken, will indicate to the vehicle behind if it is safe to do so by indicating left, and if not he will indicate right. Simple, and it does work, until the truck driver gets it wrong that is. David and I were traveling down this hill when a truck driver decided to indicate to the car behind him that it was safe to overtake. He changed his indicator from right to left a little too soon. The driver being a typical Kenyan driver, did not check to see if the truck driver was infect correct, and just proceeded to pull out from the truck and right into my path. Not a pleasant thing to see this car appear from behind a truck all of a sudden while you traveling at about 80 km/h. Idiot!! Well those are Kenyan drivers for you. Always in such a rush. Anyway,that was not the only incident on the way back to Nairobi. The overtaking and driving was frighting. People barged me off the road, especially those driving big fancy SUVs. The bigger, and the fancier, the bigger the asshole driving it. Trust me not fun, especially when it started to rain, and this did not however stop them from driving and acting like idiots. To cut a long story short, David and I were so relieved when we got to the Jungle Junction in one piece, and still alive. 
However, our arrival at the Jungle Junction, coincided with a massive thunderstorm. More like a cloud burst if you ask me. It rained so much that, the jungle Junction campsite, became nothing more than a huge mud pit. So camping was out of the question. Everyone turned their attention to the rooms/beds available in the house, which were all taken, by the time David and I attempted to secure one. The prospects of sleeping on the couch did exist however, that would require waiting for everyone to first go t bed, and then only would you be able to goto sleep. Not my idea of a comftable nights sleep. Lucky, by 8pm, the people who had precooked the dorm beds did not show so, David and I were able to a good nights rest.