Let me start off by saying that the camp at Machakos ran amazing. We were joined by many local church volunteers, pharmacists and local medical providers. The day was going so well and their was so much local help that the ENTIRE blackhawk team was able to leave the camp and go eat lunch together. Pretty awesome to completely turn things over to the people who will be caring for the patients in the long term.
Then it came time to leave and head back to Nairobi. As we were going down the mountain our fearless driver Anthony pulled over because he heard a noise that sounded like a rock in the wheel. After some inspection, he concluded their was no rock in the wheel. We continued onward. The noise continued with us.
After making it all the way down, Anthony and our mechanical engineer Kelby hopped out and crawled around under the bus looking for a cause. They again found nothing and we continued onward at a slow speed. A little while later (still about 1 and a half hours outside Nairobi at a normal speed) it was noticed by Anthony and Kelby that one of the wheels was wobbling quite noticeably. At this point we pulled over and Anthony began placing phone calls to get us a new bus from Nairobi.
We were able to safely (and very slowly) return to a commercial district we had just passed through. This is where we would eat dinner and wait for the new bus to arrive. Another driver and a mechanic would then stay with the broken bus until it was fixed and Anthony drove us uneventfully back to Nairobi.
Despite arriving 4ish hours later than planned, the team was all in good spirits and excited for tomorrow. Half the team will be headed to Nairobi national park to hopefully see lots of cool animals and then visit Jurim (our old driver) at the car shop he now works at, while the other half of the team will be headed to meet with Jane and other leaders of Beacon for vision talks. More stories to come as we find time!
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