Our fight arrived in Kisumu at 10:15AM today. We were met by Bishop David Kodia as we exited the terminal. After a warm greeting we put all of our bags in his car and proceeded to drive to Asembo to his home. It’s about a 45 minute drive from the airport. His home is not far from Lake Victoria, which is a good thing! It can get very hot outside here in the Kisumu area. Having a home near or around the lake means you get some strong breezes off of the water that cools things down. It kind of reminds me of what things can be like on Cape Cod. Even if you are inland a bit, as we are here, the strong south western winds can take the edge off of a hot summer day.
Right now we are relaxing with our friends, David and his wife Jenifer and his oldest daughter Annette. I took a two hour nap at 3 PM as I’m still getting through some jet lag. I think I should be fully adjusted to the time zone by tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, after breakfast we will go over to Bishop Okullu College so I can begin to work on and maintain their computer network. I’ve got the backup server to install and the extra thin client station to setup.
We’ve arrived in Nairobi. Our flights were pleasant and otherwise uneventful. Everything was on time to and from Dubai. We cleared customs and are at our hotel near the airport. Tomorrow morning we leave on a flight to Kisumu to make our way by car to Bishop Okullu College in Asembo. I’m looking forward to seeing Bishop David Kodia and his family again. This will be the first time to meet them for Cathy. She has not traveled to Kenya before.
At the college, I’ll be installing a backup server, which is basically a Mac mini computer that is running Windows Server as a virtual machine. I also have some other items to drop off, including a replacement thin client PC that was bad out of the box when I came last year in May 2018. That will up their workstations number to 10. I’m also going to work on a way to setup simple backups with a USB disk that I brought along.