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Kenya Photos

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This photo captures a story I will tell my grandchildren. Myself, Josephine and Patrick are riding on the cab of an old deuce and half truck. The truck had no battery or starter so it took about 10 of us to push it to pop the clutch to get it started. Then we all piled on in the bed and on the roof of the cab to ride down to the river to pickup rocks. In addition to lacking a starter and battery, this truck also lacked brakes. So basically you held on like the dickens when you took turns since all you could do to slow down was downshift. In order to stop you aimed for a flat area and ran into small rocks and trees to stop.

The view from sitting on top of the cab was amazing.

(The rocks we were getting were used as the foundation for the floors we were pouring in the school’s classrooms. On top of the rocks was poured concrete in order to prevent bugs from coming out of the ground and infecting the children’s feet as they sat in class.)