Thorns have roses...or...it started out as a very bad day

May this please be the worse thing that happens on this trip......I thought I was going to Moshi today to spend anight before meeting up with my G-Adventures group on Tuesday to start our Kilimanjaro adventure.  I looked at my voucher and arranged with the front desk to have a cab drive me to the shuttle by 8:30 because it left at 9:00.

While in the cab, I looked at the voucher again - it left at 8:00 and it was now 8:25. I had a very sinking feeling.  I called the shuttle company and my driver spoke to them for me.  They said we may be able to catch the bus and should drive to the stadium.  My driver took shortcuts he knew and we avoided much of the standing still traffic and got to the stadium within 20 minutes!

He called the shuttle company to tell them we were there and ask where we could find the shuttle.  The operator said the shuttle was ahead of us and too bad, we missed it.  We thought the shuttle would wait 10 minutes but evidently he never contacted the shuttle driver.  So, it was intense frustration on my part with the end result that I was back in Nairobi for another day.

After a stop at the shuttle office, I ended up on the shuttle on Tuesday - the day I MUST be in Moshi or I miss the entire Kilimanjaro trip.  It cost me in money and all that questioning myself about how I could see 9:00 one day and 8:00 departure the next.   But I will still meet up with my tour group unless the shuttle breaks down tomorrow.  Yeah!

The good thing that came of it:  I am at the Kenya Comfort Inn in downtown Nairobi with an easy walk to the university, which is interesting and pretty.  AND, they have hardwired computers with fast internet!!  I can post to my blog and easily check my email.  That's bliss!!

I have a few more days in Nairobi here and there and I will spend them at this Kenya Comfort Inn.  So glad I found it and the break from internet frustration that is everywhere else.

I wanted to end on a happy note - the picture is from a game drive. Monkeys in the road, giraffe in the back, river on the right.