A visit to Karen Blixen's house

A couple of weeks ago, Paul and two of his friends from AIM took a Thursday off and the three families drove north to the base of Mount Kenya. We saw the mountain on the way, but by the time we got to the National Park entrance it was in the clouds. It was a great trip anyway. We had spent a relaxing time at an airfield near Nanyuki (almost exactly on the Equator), and we had dinner at the “Trout Tree” restaurant.

On the Saturday before the wall fell, we visited the Karen Blixen (Out of Africa author – you know, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford…) Museum which is in her African home in a Nairobi suburb appropriately called Karen. The boys enjoyed running around the grounds, holding a green chameleon and playing on old farm equipment.