Nairobi

So riding in the cab from my crap hotel to my good hotel I was sitting there like holy crap I'm in Africa. 

Impressions from out of a car window are... You can tell a third world country because suddenly all of life starts to happen on the streets. Stores on the streets and people hanging out and small businesses starting up and walking everywhere.  Life visible and out in the public domain because no one owns enough private domain to do this stuff in. 

Nairobi seems a bit different because it seems that people over the years have decided to build some big inside places, apartment complexes, steel and glass office towers, shopping malls, but people haven't so much decided to rent those places or maintain them so a lot of life is happening in tin shelters erected on the sidewalks outside them.  There are less scooters and more cars than Asia but a lot more walkers as well. 

To clear up my crap hotel vs good.  Our hotel last night was an air bnb offering.  It looked a little homey, not fancy, but a 3 bedroom house all for us at a cheap price.  So in reality she had booked out the other rooms.  In a sense though that was a blessing because it gave us a good reason to leave and we would have wanted to anyway because it was pretty dirty and buggy and shabby and the neighborhood was more scary gated than secure gated and (clincher time) the roof leaked onto my bed.  Well my side of the bed because as mentioned we were sharing one.  We got in at like 10 at night and took off at like 8am for a much more pleasant hotel which does cost like 5 times more but has crisp white sheets and a garden.  It's the place our tour is meeting tomorrow so we won't have to move again. 

Anyway the reason my impressions are heavily hotel based lately is because I got violently ill in Brazil so it was like fly into Brazil, eat amazing Indian food, have a deliberate sack out day lounging and going to the pool and gym of our hotel, eat another fantastic dinner, get travellers sickness at 4am spend next day less intentionally in bed, take an 18 hour death march of flights while still sick, survive, try to sleep in bed leak hotel, get here, be able to eat noncrackers for breakfast, sleep more, play online from bed, now. 

But I did leave gaps in Peru, namely the archeological museum in Lima we saw, and lake Titicaca the lake parts, and the Amazon, which I will hopefully fill in soon.  Peace.