Traveling comes with its share of adventures...

Ok, where to start? The past couple of days have been a bit more eventful than I would have liked, but such is life. I could go into all kinds of ridiculous detail, but I think I'll spare you most of the details and sum it up as concisely as possible.

So, it would seem that prophylactic anti-malarials can have some nasty side effects, and we saw some of that in the recent past. I spent about 4 hours at a nearby hospital with Jenny yesterday, after she began to present with a variety of weird symptoms. In short, the doc told her it is most likely a toxicity to the anti-malaria pills she had been taking, and combined with likely dehydration I guess the drug reached a higher-than-normal level in her system. We were stuck in traffic on the way to the hospital (likely an hour or so), which was frustrating to say the least. But, all in all, we lived to tell the tale. The photo here (I wish I could take credit for it, but alas I borrowed it from google images :) ) depicts what Nairobi traffic looks like most of the time. Chaos, to say the least.

Anywho, that provided some excitement to our day yesterday. Needless to say, Jenny's not taking any more Mefloquine. As it happens, we were informed that it's actually better to just wear lots of bug juice and use mosquito nets than to take the prophylaxis (which apparently frequently cause symptoms of varying presentation and severity). Interesting.

So, besides feeling fairly exhausted, we're still in relatively good spirits. We're looking forward to (hopefully) being able to spend only another day or so in Nairobi before venturing out to see some wildlife and then head toward the coast.

That's about all for now. We're heading back to the hostel (after spending a number of hours in town, getting less done than we would have liked. Ah well), where we will probably strongly consider taking a nap. Ahh, sleep...