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A journal from the equator about life for an American expat family living in Nairobi, Kenya
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by: shpadre
We arrived in Nairobi in late November 2007. Before that, we lived in Geneva, Switzerland for 4 years. That was our first time living overseas. We are a family with a young daughter. We returned to the U.S. in early 2009 to live and work.

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This blog about our life in Nairobi/Kenya/Africa is now officially closed. Because we have moved away from that area, we can no longer write about our adventures there, so we need a new...   Read more
Out of Africa Posted on 15/05/2009

Dear Gentle Reader,Last week the last of us Padres left our home in Nairobi, Kenya. Sarah and Lexi had stayed behind after Stephen left in early March so Sarah could finish her contract...   Read more

I have to post another great story from Africa here on the blog before we shut it down. I posted this same text and photos on my Facebook profile at the prompting of my friend Liz in...   Read more
Consider the lowly dung beetle Posted on 04/05/2009

This is one topic that's Africa-related and definitely something worth pointing to before we shut this blog down.Today, NPR aired an interview with Douglas Emlen, a professor of...   Read more
The ants go marching... Posted on 03/05/2009

Before we shut down this blog (which will probably be soon, since this coming week we will all be out of Africa), I wanted to share an interesting video I shot at Lake Naivasha when I saw a...   Read more

Today I took a trip around the world, all without leaving my city. If you consider that an embassy in a country is actually the territory of the other country, then I stepped on the foreign...   Read more
Leaving Kenya Posted on 01/05/2009

In less than a week, Lexi and I (and my mom who has been here for a week) will all leave together to the U.S. It has been a crazy couple of weeks. I have been working frantically trying to...   Read more
It’s not the White House... Posted on 30/04/2009

...but now I can say I’ve lived on 16th in Washington, D.C., just like the Obamas (they live at the intersection of 16th and Pennsylvania), who also happen to be former residents of...   Read more

This isn't a post about happenings with all of us in Nairobi/Kenya/Africa, since I, Stephen, am now living in Washington, D.C., while Sarah and Lexi stay behind in Nairobi until...   Read more

This may seem odd, but one stark difference between the U.S. and Kenya/Africa that I noticed fairly soon after arriving in Washington, D.C., is how much paper is used in the U.S. in various...   Read more
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