Lovely Lamu

We've been in Lamu about a week now and may never leave.

Lamu is an island near the border of Somalia with tons of donkeys, no cars (except for 1 tuk tuk which serves as the ambulance), loads of dhows (a kind of sailboat), beautiful beaches and great, I mean GREAT food. We've been gorging ourselves on garlic crab, coconut fish and chai......we literally schedule our day around the next feeding frenzy.

We've become odd, white regulars at a chai house where the proprietor speaks only swahili, acts like a Muslim Nathan Lane and calls everyone "boss." Dan has become a chai junkie -- it think it's all the milk and pound of sugar they add to every cup.

Lamu also feels like another country from the other parts of Kenya we've been to. It's almost entirely Muslim. Picture women in burkas and men in printed kikoi skirt (like a sarong or lava lava). The swahili people who live here are a mix of black and arab. The town feels like someplace in the middle east more than in africa with maze like, narrow winding streets.

P.S. for all of your who voted in our first poll. The answer is that we have been in a 14 passenger with as many as 23 people crammed in....we'll let you know if we hit 36.