While we were in Nairobi, we spent the day going to an Elephant and Giraffe Orphanage.  At the David Sheldrick wildlife trust we saw 11 baby elephants having lunch and got to pat them as they strolled around, played with a soccer ball and splashed themselves in the red dirt water.  There we...

I thought it would be hard to be here:

-closing the door in Mexico and not knowing when we'd be back.

-crossing the border with Francisco, facing the usual refugee immigrant drama with the familiar fear fluttering in my stomach.

-confronting the chatter of US news, which I'd largely avoided...