solo roadtrip

speed week by christopher wilson (www.christopherwilsonphotography.com)

so, over the weekend, i went on a solo roadtrip. and i had a ball! totally. of course i was slightly anxious and minorly scared before taking off. i mean, with all the insecurity stories you hear in kenya… and i kept having visions of getting a flat in some weirdly isolated stretch of road and wondering what to do. ah. but in my new fabulous, more daring life, i have discovered that we trudge on, not because we are not afraid, but despite that fear. (mandela said something brilliant about moving forward despite the fear… anyway).

so, i started out really early. blame it on the anxiety that woke me up at ungodly hours to start. and beloveds, i loved it.

i loved the open road ahead of me. i loved being just me and ka-defender (that’s the given name of my car :- ) and the radio which chose to play some really good music “just for me”. (delusions of grandeur!) and after the radio stations i like lost frequency after i got to the more rural parts, then it was me and estelle, the cool in shine!

i loved the beauty around me. at some point, i switched off the music and had to burst into song! literally! a song of praise at creation and just wonder at the beauty of my beloved country. “peace song”, also called “finlandia”. i must have sang for a whole 20 kilometres! what was i gonna do, seeing all the vast land spread out around me? i loved it.

and on the way back, i played with a stranger! okay. for some reason, i started competing with other cars on the road. oh and by the way, i went the fastest i have ever driven! speed indicator needle tittering on the brink of 140 kilometres per hour. which then scared the daylights out of me and i promptly went back to my cool 100. anyway, back to that competition.

so i noticed a KAY 654 – maybe somewhere about two hours from destination. i pass it easy and take off “like the wind” at 100 kilometres per hour anyway, somewhere about 40 minutes to destination, who flies by me? KAY 654. and that was it for me, people, i had to win that one. and i did, after speeding over some rather bumpy, pot-hole heavy road, screaming half the time coz of fear and joy combined, i won. turning off, KAY 654 hooted. not a sour loser that one. and my win had me smiling almost all the way home although i suffered a serious headache from the stress of it all. but it was fun, playing with strangers.

so, that was my roadtrip. which got me thinking that maybe i should take on nairobi to mombasa on my own. which i then promptly deleted from my mind thinking how boring that would be. a 3 hour drive alone? that i recommend to you all. 8 hours on the other hand is abit much. get some good good company to take that on.

so for today, i highly recommend taking an easy trip by yourself. it is kinda very nice!

xoxo, m

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