I'm off to Kenya to spend a week volunteering for Kenya Keys. My focus on the board is libraries so I've been researching and buying books for weeks. Amazon lost 4 huge boxes of books, refunded my money, allowed me to reorder, paid the expedited shipping so that I would get them before I left. Then surprisingly the 'lost' boxes were found and the books delivered. About $700 of books from a canceled, refunded order. Guess what they did? They told me I could keep the books - ALL THE BOOKS - as a gift from the company! Isn't that wonderful! Talk about good customer service! Many of the books will be taken by the large intern teams going this summer but I managed to pack 70 pounds of books into my 3 bags. I'm lucky this year to have a 3 bag allowance and I have 3 - 50 pounders! At this point when it was all spread out on my bed I had my doubts that it would all fit.
It isn't easy to pack that many books into suitcases but I did it. Three HEAVY bags!
One stuffed carryon bag! And my favorite 'personal item bag' and I'm ready to go.
Kenya here I come! I'm often asked how long it takes to get there. Well...10 hours and 20 minutes to Amsterdam; 3 hours in Amsterdam and then 8 hours and 5 minutes to Nairobi, Kenya. We'll spend the night there and then take the new Nairobi-Mombasa train to Taru village.
I'm happy to say that a driver is going to take all those heavy bags so that we don't have to haul them on the train. Yep, it is a LONG trip but so worth it to see the wonderful work being done by Kenya Keys. I'm proud to be a part of it all! Check them out
http://kenyakeys.org
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