Monday in Nairobi

Here I am tying to save my posting from Saturday's trip from Blantyre to Lilongwe. thanks to my tech support, last night's post was retrieved.

Here's what I saw on my four hour coach ride out my dripping window:

roosters, goats, cattle grazing periously close to the highway;
small plots of maize planted;
people selling tires, charcoal, piles of wood,dried fish, tamatoes, squash, etc.;
muddy paths along the highway and some leading back into the countryside;
small brick houses, some of which had a plaster over the outside of the brick;
thatched roofs on these houses, and some with metal roofs;
people standing in groups on the porches under cover from the rain;
long open-sided shed with tobacco hanging to dry;
thatched round sheds used for storing the maize/corn;
thatched round "out houses"....