The road to the Mt. Kenya Lodge was a gruelling 15 kilometers of mud and ruts which takes an average of 3 hours
It was good entertainment watching them get the Land Rover un-stuck and it gave us a nice chance to stretch our legs
Vehicles headed to the lodge are equipped with a three man team, a bolo (for digging and chopping bamboo or fallen trees), and a jack
Anand and Heidi blowing out the birthday candles
The lowlands of Chogoria with the giant tussock grasses in the foreground. We were almost always hiking through these fluffy cotton balls. 
The trees in this forest are covered with "goat's beard" lichen and moss; it's like being in a fairy book story
Beautiful Mt. Kenya in the morning sun
This was one of the better patches of road
The bamboo forests; they can grow up to 30 feet tall!
Elephant!
Sunrise over the lake out the back door of our cottage at the Mt. Kenya Lodge
Sunset over the lake; watering hole for herons and buffalo and bush buck
Me and Anand at his birthday dinner party. Ato, a Kenyan artist, made his cake into a car.
Birthday party favors! These provide endless entertainment at the Mt. Kenya Lodge, in the car in the jam on the way home, and the fun was still going at the dinner party.
Finicky cell signal. The guides have to keep the cell phones right where they are and there are random bamboo markers all over the trails and slopes of the base of the mountain marking where it is possible to send a text home.
Heading out for an afternoon walk
Anand doing his part to help get the Land Rover out of the mud.
