Day 48 Wednesday February 28 Rest Day in Nairobi

By Henry

Relaxing breakfast at the hotel. Plans were discussed and made for the day.

Linda walked to Wildebeest Eco Camp with Tim and Jeff to retrieve some items we ordered and had delivered to Goeff’s wife Christine. She was kind enough to collect and pack many such items from various bikers, and schlep them to Nairobi all the way from Philadelphia. We look forward to riding with and getting to know her in the coming weeks.

My task for the morning was to get my duffel bag zipper repaired, as it was starting to tear out. Hotel staff informed me that there was a tailor 200 m across a field at the nearby church.

On the grounds of a church just adjacent to Radix Hotel. 


Also, just outside the church was this shed where a Catholic nun was selling her wares. Behind her is a tailor who repaired the zipper on my duffel bag for $0.70.

When Linda and Jeff returned, I joined them on an excursion to the local bike shop.

Jeff then took off on a boda boda to do other errands on his own.
Linda and I went to the Decathlon store to pick up some additional supplies.


Following that, we made the trek to the Karen Blixen Museum, a branch of the Kenyan National Museum. She chronicled her colonial coffee plantation life in the 1937 novel “Out of Africa” under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. These days, Karen is the name of the very wealthy southern suburb of Nairobi.


This 1922 Ford model F tractor remains on the Blixen property.


Late in the afternoon, I took a dip in the pool at the Radix Hotel, with chapel in the background.
We dropped off our permanent bags at Wildebeest Eco Camp, repaired a flat tire for Linda, attended the rider meeting at 5 PM, and returned back to our hotel to partake of another dinner purchased from the grocery store, then got organized for tomorrow’s ride.

We were surprised to see that there were 3 new bike riders (of 13) who had just arrived at Wildebeest at 5 PM, and were unloading their bags and starting to put their bicycles together. We saw many new faces, but did not have a chance to meet anyone tonight. There will be much time to get to know them down the road.