Home to Mombasa

Wednesday 09.02.11

Tammi was up early to head into the airport in the hope that the luggage had arrived overnight.  Of course, it had not turned up so we packed for Mombasa and checked out of the hotel.  We missed the morning bus but got on the 1pm one.  We went with Modern Coast, which was so much better than Maslah.  It was another few dollars but completely worth it.  We drove direct to Mombasa and stopped only for lunch so the trip took only 7 hours.

At the lunch stop, I bought some hot chips and returned to the bus to eat them.  As I sat down just in front of the door, a young school boy noticed me and stood at the bottom of the bus steps staring at me.  He was so cute!  Considering I couldn’t eat all my chips anyway, I wandered down the steps and held them out to him.  His face was so surprised and he wasn’t sure if he was meant to take them.  I kept nodding and he eventually held out his hands.  As soon as I placed them there he smiled, and I told him to say thank you, and he did!  He then ran off and shared them with his sister.  Such a tiny little thing, 40c worth of chips, made him so happy!

The bus trip went quickly and I got through another novel before dark.  We arrived in Mombasa at 8pm and Omosh met us and drove us home.  It was good to be home as we had had a pretty disastrous few days in Nairobi.  Unfortunately, Tammi is going to have to go back again when the luggage arrives, hopefully she can come when I go back for my flight.