Monday, May 25, Kisumu and the clinic

Naomy had to leave early for work in the morning but my adventure was about to begin for the day. Evey had still not gotten her traveler’s checks cashed and Gambogi is closer to Kisumu than Kakamega, so we arranged with Pastor Timothy to go to Kisumu, stop at the bank, and then check out a clinic on the outskirts of the city. We took a matatu (12 passenger van with 20 some people in it). After going to three different places Evey finally got the travelers checks cashed. We then took another matatu to get closer to the clinic. We had to rent motorcycles to get to the clinic. My brothers would have loved the ride through narrow lanes dividing the fields with the mountains visible in the distance.

We reversed the process to get back to the main part of town. We sat in the market behind Christine’s mom’s stand to rest a few minutes before walking to the matatu stop and haggling so we didn’t pay twice as much for the ride home as everyone else.

We got to Gambogi and had tea with Timothy and Christine. Timothy flagged down a Matatu. The driver was his friend and drove the whole group up to Naomy’s gate while we ran into the house and got out bags. We ran out and hopped in. We got to Kakamaga safe and sound.