Jambo sana

Very hello from Kenya. I don't have much that makes sense to blog, especially in this forum since I haven't been paying attention to the non-local news. Yeah, Nairobi doesn't have a beltway, so it's weird to watch coverage of the happenings there and care about it, but it is the closest thing to political gossip that they show on the local TV. Party politics sound much more complicated when it isn't a two-party system, but I don't really have to understand much for conversation because all anyone here asks about is Kenyan homeboy Obama anyway.

I've escaped the noise and cold and dust and crime (ok, only some of the dust and crime) of Nairobi for the tropical beach paradise that is Mombasa. Our hotel is the best bargain around, perhaps because it is just past the back lot of the Nakumatt (think Walmart but with furniture and an attached mall). The beach is beautiful, and aside from the sunburn I'm sporting I have no complaints. Well, that's not quite true - internet here is universally slow, and the driving on the left thing is bound to kill me sometime as I fail to look in the right direction. But otherwise, hakuna matata.