Driving out of Samburu towards Archer's Post early in the morning we stopped to watch a cheetah near the road. The road to Marsabit is every bit as bad as people told us it was. Somewhere along the way people told us the road would get better 'in about 50km' and the last bit to Marsibit we could drive '100-120kmh'. We never did figure out where that last stretch of Kenyan Autobahn was and we pulled into Marsibit at around 1600 at our usually 50-60km/h. We stopped twice along the way. Once in a small dusty Samburu town where Eowyn shook hands with everyone as we rested and Stanley and Niels looked over the car. The second time came about 30 minutes after the first when the front left shock blew out. Stanley and Niels set up shop in the open road in the sun to change the shock. Julia and Eowyn took refuge in the only bit of shade around which would have been idyllic except there was no shortage of biting flies. In about an hour we were on the way again.
