Checked TV schedule in vain to try to watch the Super Bowl at 2 am.  No go.  Nowhere on TV.  Check with concierge to see where there is a Super Bowl party.  There is one about a ten minute ride at a hotel, but I am informed that at 2 am there are roving bands of  carjackers who put spikes in the road and rob car occupants, and not just white tourists.  Discouraging.  Decide on sleeping instead. Feb 4,  not a sound about Super Bowl or Ravens win, which was  over about 5 am  here.  Staff doesn’t know it happened and don’t know what American football is.  After another unnecessary breakfast, we meet Simon out front, our guide for the next 6 days.  Head out to the giraffe park, $16.  Then to orphan elephant park.  You can pass on these two attractions but you can’t dislike baby elephants and giraffes. Pass one of Africa’s largest slums in the middle of town – shanty contiguous with shanty, tin roofs, no road, no vehicles, with a perfectly defined border, like a zoo.  No progression from moderate to severe poverty.   Stop to pick up tickets near Nairobi National Park for Amboselli park in three days.  Warthogs scramble through the parking lot almost underfoot! On way out we see a sign – “Warthogs and children have right of way.”  Next stop 1 1/2 hours to Insigna where we will find Debby Rooney at her newly opened school named “Tembea Academy,” meaning “to walk”.

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