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Mr,
Were Ogambe, new driver/mechanic for the KFRP, tends to a truck
before the journey to Turkana.
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NAIROBI, Kenya
We have received our grant for the next three months of field
work from the National Geographic Society – Missions Program
Special Projects. We were then able to make necessary purchases
for the field. The lists of supplies were left with the
supermarket and members of the team went in different directions
in pursuit of hardware, plastic water drums, gasoline and food
stuffs
food stuffs. to last us the next few months. As usual most of the hard
goods have to go north by road, a three and a half day journey.
This year we had to find a new driver/mechanic at the very last
minute. Mr. Were Ogambe.
was
recruited. He gave the truck a look over and found several
problems that we had to fix before the journey. These included
major works to the
rear spring., exhaust
and steering column. The team left in one landcruiser and the
heavily laden truck. They had a burst tyre and three flats on
the lorry all of which they had to fix in the heat of the day
miles from any garage. A U bolt broke on the land cruiser and
they were able to strap the spring together to get them in to
camp.
Someone broke into the back of the truck at Loyengelani at night
and made off with some food stuffs- fortunately nothing else
went missing. They arrived at Koobi Fora as I landed in the
plane. This year I have company, my five month old daughter is
with me! Meave is going to drive north next week with Patrick
Gathogo the geologist so they can do some work at the south of
the lake on their way up. We are going to get the camps set up
so we can get to work as soon as possible.
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