Feb 6.   Our last morning at the BEADS house and Top Ride Academy.  Peanut butter and jelly breakfast.  Debby tells us it would be good form to bring gifts for Patrick, the Maasai chief, and his long time friend James, a Maasai warrior.  They will be hosting us in their villages and homes.  We should plan on paying them 100 dollars for the goat they will sacrifice for us in addition to the gifts for each of them.   We go to the local storefront in Insigna for staples and groceries.  It’s a 15 by 15 room with 3 guys and we buy 10 lbs of cornmeal, 5 lbs of salt, cooking oil, soap, Vaseline ointment, flour, and a bag of hard candy for the village kids.  Total bill $54. Then we drive to the regional hospital for a tour.  We arrive and it is strangely quiet.  We wander around the entry area and are finally approached by a gentleman who informs us that the nurses are on strike nationwide, and since there are no nurses, the doctors don’t come in and no patients are accepted.  The only patients here are the tuberculosis patients in their little bungalows apart from the main wards.  We go check these wards out and say hi to the three cachectic patients sitting around.  Then peer in to the ob ward, where there is a single bed with stirrups, an empty bucket on the floor below with a second hand tampon.  A few blood stains still faintly visible here and there. Concrete floors.  A sign outside gives the fees for various visits and procedures.  The administrator confirms that there is no emergency care anywhere around here until Nairobi, one hour forty minutes away.  Yikes.  Now we head to Amboselli,  three hours further from Nairobi.