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Loitokitok by Foot- Kili Initiative # 15

December 11, 2019 – 4:11 pm

The Kili Initiative 2019 team assembled at 5:55 for pre-dawn calisthenics. JM cancelled the morning jog, because the young people, Fast Steve, and JM were running from our campsite to Loitokitok. The team skipped breakfast to avoid stomach cramps. Johnny, the driver, loaded the backpacks, tents, and equipment onto the tuk-tuk. The ten runners set […]

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An African Sun Shower – Kili Initiative 2019 #14

December 9, 2019 – 6:03 pm

We returned to the small town after the climbing exercise at the Maasai Rocks. JM said we had the afternoon free. The Kili Initiative team took a break. I wandered to the nearby school. The students had left for the day. Their departing footprints scored the dust. The school served the scattered communities. The ground […]

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Maasai Rocks – 2019 Kili Initiative # 14

December 3, 2019 – 3:06 pm

After a quick lunch of sandwiches the Kili Initiative squad headed to the Maasai Rocks to learn climbing techniques. The footpath was typically dusty and the sun was high in the sky, however the temperature was pleasant on the high equatorial plain. I lagged behind the group as a rearguard against a lion attack. While […]

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The Middle Of Nowhere # 12- 2019 Kili Initiative.

December 1, 2019 – 9:59 pm

The younger members of the 2019 Kili Initiative team were exhausted from the slog up Lolopange and were happy to depart from the thorny slopes of the arid hill. I asked the group, “What would rather do? Climb Lolopange or spend a night in jail?” “Jail,” they answered as one and we all laughed at […]

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Kili Initiative 2019 # 4 – Leaving Nairobi

August 26, 2019 – 8:59 am

Early Sunday morning I woke early to the rock-n-rock prayer meetings competing for souls on the YMCA grounds. In the near distance other Bible-thumpers preached ‘the Word’. Fast Steve knocked on my door. The twenty-nine year-old Kenyan was the group leader for the Kili Initiative team. “Time to get up. We eat breakfast and then […]

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