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  1. Kenyan Traffic...Errrgh! Just got a lungfull of the blackest acrid diesel smoke from a truck as my taxi passed (on the inside). Blurgh! 9:10 AM Nov 30th from mobile web
  2. Kenya is full of signs like this: Polite notice. Idlers and Loiterers Strictly Forbidden. 9:08 AM Nov 30th from mobile web
  3. Kenya: Our driver got superglue to fix the fan. 2nd secret repair ingredient: dust. Then he blows on it. (Hope it works!) 7:37 AM Nov 28th from mobile web
  4. Bumping along a narrow track in the Rift Valley. Dusk turns everything a deeper green. The melodic clank of a goat's bell. 7:23 AM Nov 28th from mobile web
  5. Take a taxi through iridescent green tea fields to see disposessed tribesmen. Six guys jump in. They're not hitching. They want to see IDPs. 7:08 AM Nov 28th from mobile web
  6. The fan on my car in Kenya is slipping. Car overheating. Driver going to buy superglue. 7:01 AM Nov 28th from mobile web
  7. Rift Valley Kenya. A couple of guys plowing a field with hand hoes. Backbreaking work. I'm thinking what century pple began tilling that way 10:29 PM Nov 27th from mobile web
  8. The Great Rift Valley Viewpoint. View today: fog and rain. 10:10 PM Nov 27th from mobile web
  9. driving out of nairobi in the rain. in Joburg, my daughter's about to compete in a championship riding show. wish i could be there for her. 9:40 PM Nov 27th from mobile web
  10. @gussilber. And endless shopping malls. I heard a guy describing Venice to his kid: Imagine a mall, with a canal in it. Venice? A mall? 11:08 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  11. I love that Courage the turkey got sent to Disneyland instead of being eaten. 11:04 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  12. Kenyan driver took me to change money: at all night casino full of bleary looking guys waiting for the Win. Such sad places always. 10:05 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  13. @shashank bengali. You still in Nairobi? or home for thanksgiving? 10:01 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  14. Kenyan radio: women have no difficulty acting like men. But a lot of difficulty acting like gentlemen. 10:00 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  15. Kenyan men: just impossible to drink w yr wife. Kenyan women: it's fine. Kenyan radio 9:57 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  16. Kenyan talkback radio: the worst thing you can do is go drinking with your wife after you married her. 9:34 PM Nov 26th from mobile web
  17. Not everyone can take great photos. It's an art form, like great writing. via @francineorr http://bit.ly/4wPjm5 4:41 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  18. 30 mile comet fragment once hit Earth? Fascinating piece RT @alanna_shaikh: Dinosaurs killed by atrocious bad luck http://bit.ly/47oQ56 3:21 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  19. RT @lydiapolgreen: Calling out France for backing autocrats as democracy slips in its former African domain. http://bit.ly/3wloH3 12:30 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  20. RT @francineorr: Great photojournalism by Los Angeles Times http://tinyurl.com/yeus2w9 12:30 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  • Name Robyn Dixon
  • Bio Tribune/LA Times correspondent in Johannesburg. Mother. Cook. Friend of bipeds and quarupeds. Love it here. But always missing Russia and Australia.
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