10 March 2007 - Titilia, Daba & Waldena
Final approach into Titilia Dropped off the Jasters for their upcountry orientation visit.  The pockmarks on the runway are burn marks where the villagers burned off grass clumps to maintain the runway.	Final approach into Waldena.  Picked up the Scheetners who were coming into Nairobi for a conference and other business. This is about 10 hours by road from Nairobi , and about an hour and 15 minutes by airplane.	Huts near Waldena. Some of the people who the Scheetners minister to.  They're mostly Muslim.  The Scheetners have been out here for about 20 years planting a church and discipling those who come to Christ.
24 July 2007 - Kalacha, Hurri Hills, Gatab
Final into Kalacha.  The Hamptons are preparing for a TIMO team which will be wroking there starting in March-April of 2008.  On takeoff from Kalacha a Land Rover crossed the departure end (the main street of the town runs across the runway).  The driver  sped up quite a bit when he saw the airplane.	Final into Hurri Hills.  The Bucks have been there for several years working with the Gabra people. The runway had recently been re-oriented and re-worked, so we flew in to check it out.  It's at 4400 ft, and is only 700m long, with a 2.5% upslope, long grass, and rising terrain on 3 sides. An interesting takeoff.	On the ground at Hurri Hills looking back from the departure end.
The Chalbi Desert (on the way into Kalacha from the south).  Lots of salt flat.  The locals mine salt from the desert and sell it.	Sunset on the Chalbi.  We went out here  for a picnic dinner at sunset.	Ilmara.  Yes that is the runway.  If you look very closely you can see a small mound on the approach end.  It's a grave mound, and is in the middle of  the turn around.  Always people and animals on the runway.
The main runway at Gatab as seen from downwind.  Base has to be in fairly close because severe downdrafts occur over the eastern end as the prevailing wind drops into the ravine.  Always take off and land to the east. On takeoff you get an instant 1000 ft AGL gain.  If you lose an engine on takeoff, you can glide to the lower airstrip about 2 nm south.
2 August 2007 - Korr
Refueling in Korr.  Andy Keller's son is helping me.  I'd flown to Logologo earlier and had to stop in Korr to refuel. I was fortunate that Andy was there with another AIM Air plane and could help.  Otherwise I'd have been pouring avgas from the drum into a bucket and then pouring from the bucket into the tank.  The hand pump is definitely a nicer way to go.	Departing Korr after refueling.
21-23 August 2007 – Merti
We picked the people going to Merti up at Lewa Downs.  The ostrich was there to greet us.  Actually he also interviewed to be Mike's copilot in the Caravan, but failed on the requirement that aircrew have to "read, write, speak and understand English."	The unloading of the planes and loading of the trucks on arriiving at Merti.  With a group this size there's a bit of work to be done.	This is the queue to get into the health clinic the team was running for 2 days at Merti.  It stayed about this size the entire time.  As people were seen, more would show up to refill the queue.
This man was coming into the clinic to be seen after filling out the patient card.  About 90% of the people in Merti are muslim, like this man.	Some people being seen at the clinic.  It was a row of about 10 stations. Each station was a nurse, EMT, or doctor, and a translator.  Everyone got a pack of vitamins, and a de-wormer.  Individual complaints were also looked at, everything from ear infections in infants, to one fellow with a broken foot.  Alot of cases of diarrhea, numerous rashes and skin problems.  Mostly associated with hygiene and poor water supply.	Filling out the techlog in preparation to head back to Nairobi.  You can't fly until the paperwork is done, which means the paper outweighs the airplane..
When the clinic finished, the women of Merti put on a dance exhibition for the team, to show their appreciation for the clinic.	Of course, the whole village got to attend.  This old man sat off to the side and watched.
October 2007 - Kitale & Eldoret with Cure International
Waiting for the clinic in Kitale to start.	Processing the paperwork for patients before the doctors see them.  There was a huge line ... very busy day.  Unfortunately my camera batteries failed and I only got a couple pictures.
November 2007 - Samburu
I'd dropped two guys off for New Directions Int'l in Kurungu, and three guys and a lady wanted to go to Maralal.  None of the three had been in an airplane before.  The three in back were pretty happy and smiling (the lady was reading the newspaper like she flew every day).  The fellow in the seat next to me was scared stiff.	Refuling at Korr This is the not so nice way to refuel. Note the bucket. It took us about 20 minutes to put 100 l (25 gallons) in the tanks. It's also hard work since you have to fill the bucket by pouring it from a 200 l (55 gal) drum, which weighs in at about 350 lbs when full.	Residents of Samburu South Mike and Matt, the New Directions guys, let me tag along on their game drive in Samburu. That's Mike in the picture to the left helping me refuel.
Just back from flying. Four of the Middleton's workers had never been in an airplane, so they came up with 1000 Ksh (about 20 dollars) and I took them for a five minute flight. This is them bragging to their fellows after surviving the experience.
Meanwhile, in Nairobi
Check 3 on N756MS We have to re-register this airplane (the C-206 that's usually in Gatab) to Kenyan registry. But before that can happen it needs what they call a Check 3 here in Kenya, a very thorough inspection. We're going rather a lot farther than the Check 3 really calls for, essentially overhauling the airplane, including a new paint job. Steve Hoekstra, an AIM Air short term mechanic is up on the ladder, Bosire one of our dispatchers is sitting on the stand, Musyoki another dispatcher is behind Bosire, and Joseph one of the mechanics is climbing out of the airplane. Work is supposed to be completed by mid-December, with the paperwork starting immediately after.
Flying in  2008
Lions Lions!
This is what happens when you fly out of the Massai Mara.  John McNeely came back to his airplane one afternoon in October 2008 and found he would be a little delayed while he ran off the ground crew.	This ostrich wanted to get in on flying.  He tried to climb in the caravan cockpit with Mike DeLorenzo.	On downwind at Gatab.
The runway at Nolpilipili, just to the north east of Gatab. It's 9 miles by air, about 7 minutes from the time the airplane starts moving for takeoff until I'm parked at the other end.  It takes about 4 hours by road.  This is looking south (the usual landing and takeoff direction).	Groceries!  This is one of 3 such cart loads we put into the C-206, along with the five of us.  When you shop for 3 months at a crack it gets to be quite a stack of groceries.	Getting all those groceries in the airplane.
Stuck!  I found the soft sand at the north end of the Ngurunit runway.  Temple and his crew are in the truck (the dust cloud at the left) coming to the rescue.  Jade Teasdale is examining just how stuck we are.  Five or six of us got together and pushed the plane out onto firmer sand.	Mt Kenya from the air, this is the south east side.  It's about 17,200 feet MSL, and I was at about 11,500 MSL.	Flying in rainy season.  As you can see the ground, and thus the runway, is VERY wet.  We landed at Maralal to drop some cargo off. Fortunately Maralal's runway is murram which handles the rain very well.