Weather

I thought the rainy season ended with December. I guess someone forgot to let God know, since He's still providing lots of rain.

Usually, if you get out of Nairobi and into the Rift Valley you can get wherever you need to go with no trouble at all. Not so on Friday last week. Egad. I ducked, I dodged, I went east, I went west, clouds, rain.... The weather was poor leaving Nairobi, but I got out. The Rift was full of rain, and it goes off to the north west, so I had to leave it after a while to head east toward Kurungu. More rain, very low clouds...I spent a while wandering around low level (now I know why we do route checks!) . Finally, a break. I dodged a couple more rain showers and was able to get into Kurungu. Wow. I unloaded, and went back. The return trip was easier, and so was the second flight up to Kurungu (I had 2 loads for there on Friday), but I ran out of daylight for the return trip, so I overnighted there in Kurungu, South Horr really, with my passengers and returned on Saturday. The weather was better on Saturday, but I still had low clouds and rain showers to deal with, and had to fight my way into Nairobi.

It was great fun, but I'm -really- looking forward to getting my Kenyan instrument rating in a couple weeks.