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The #KapsabetMassive Squad (at Kapsabet)

So here is the thing. I know I have said it before but I will say it again. Travel is not thaaaat expensive. Like, if you figure a way around it, you will see. This weekend I am in Kapsabet. A town I have never been to. When I was leaving my diggz in Nairobi West, my cuzo asked my where I get the money to travel atravela fwaaaa. My friend got a job here so he moved. He is hosting us for the next two days. All we had to do was get ourselves here. Kwani how much is fare to this place? And just like that, a new territory is conquered. . . . The problem is that he told us this place has kawaida weather. It is my fault to have believed him. Because this place DOES NOT have normal weather. I realized too late that to him it is normal because he is Kisii and is used to the highlands where people exhale white air. Me, I grew up in Kisumo. My shagz is in Alego Komenya. For us to see rain, we have to offer burnt sacrifices. In fact, if we have this kind of weather, we start looking at each other funny, trying to figure out who called the name of an ancestor in vain. . . . "Ntie mihia moro ka miluongo ni Onyango ma kaMbata. Wuoyi makite numu nyere. Wach moro ni kosenyamo kal kasto ichako lwongo nying Okango abara mach, emomiyo kawuono okwane wang' chieng'." . . . Now look at this picture. I just took it. It looks like evening. No sun. Dark clouds. But still, amazingly, quite beautiful. I guess the environment is also one of those things that becomes delicious when wet. . . . Lakini it's not just the place that is beautiful. The people are too. So, our host's neighbour is an athlete. No surprises there. It's a default setting to be an athlete here. Her house is full of trophies. But that's not the beauty I was talking about. Imagine last night she showed up with a bowl of chapos just because. . . . As in, it is normal for a jirani to show up in your doorstep with food every so often. Now that is not something that I have seen in Nairobi or Kisumo. Beauty does not lie in eyes of the beholder. Those people lied. Beauty is in the hands of a neighbour who surprises you once in a while with a bowl of chapos. . . #Kapsabet #KapsabetMassive #ThisIsMyKenya #Travel #Wanderlust (at Kapsabet)