Just getting there!

Before we even got on the plane, there were tons of preparations that needed to be made. I was just along for the ride, doing what I was told by "Quiet Way". This great Charity organization is the catalyst for this whole deal to begin with. Ron Hatfield is the leader and starter of this wonderful organization. If there is a Man responsible for all of our little group coming here and doing this service work. Its Ron! He's the Man!

Now, Ron's Daughter Crystal is the director of operations, so she called us a few days before we left and had us come down to Ron's property and load a huge crate of goods to be shipped to Africa. What an experience! I didn't get many photos, but the news came so I snapped a shot of Crystal being interviewed.

A few days later, it was off to Africa! Shawn and I hopped on a plane and blasted through Detroit. While we were there we met with our 3rd partner in Actionprofiles.com, Jesse DenHerder. It was really cool to see him, even for a short layover. We chatted about Africa and all of the upcoming items going on with AP. What a stud. We are going to have some much fun integrating this whole Africa movement with action sports.

Also, I snapped a photo of Shawn's suitcase as he had it open in the airport. He clearly has a snacking problem....and I'm the one who's overweight!

We arrived in Africa.....18 flight hours later! It was about 7 at night. After going through security, filling out our visa apps, etc. We then play the "find my bag" game! Wahoo! So much fun, especially when(in the Kenyan Airport) if there are too many bags on the carousel, they just throw them off at random on to the floor! WTF? We could find our bags for like an hour! I was freaking out! I finally found all of them off in a corner of the airport somewhere! Also, your not supposed to take photos in the Kenyan airport! So I got this footage incognito!

After the bag hunt, we met up with Benson, our Kenyan guide basically. Benson grew up in the area we are working in, but he later moved to the states to get a further education and work. He comes back often with Quiet Way to help translate and coordinate. Benson is a true humanitarian. What a great example he was to us while we were here. He was always buying things and giving them to the people, such as candy, cookies, toilet paper, etc.