20/03/2025
Lake Rutundu --- Part 2
The early morning start was rather easy for me.
The ever ready time keepers, Ken and King'ori are always friendly enough to ring me "tondu Gikuyu, your son can sleep through a war."
Hurriedly rushing out, ndo mimi huyo nimetoka na mgeni mashuhuri Vic, this will be his first long distance ride too...not to mention his first ride with us.
He won't admit it but he got a bike after constantly seeing status updates of us ripping through the bundus doing what we do best and wanted to join in.
By now, I'm already aware that the Nairutia Team has already left...we've agreed to meet on the outskirts of Naromoru Town, so all that remains is fuelling and heading out.
Agenda for the day would be to first get to Naromoru, Fuel, say Grace, then head out to Mt Kenya Sirimon gate to promptly get checked and pickup our gate passes. On our ride back, we'd pick up the two Sams i.e our guides for the day.
Little did I know that Daktari had changed his mind about coming for the Ride.
Enter Dr Maina, man from Matungulu(Made that up haha), he's riding the other offroad bike i.e the Great Focin 150 (It'd earlier made it's debut on the Lake Ellis Leg earlier in the year).
Hapa sasa kijana kafungua throttle and zoomed into the horizon. Nii reke ngwire Wanja "andakaragia ma!"
Kuna siku Muthee Faoro nyoroshad me on his bike (barely a month after training him how to ride the bike he'd just bought not knowing how to ride) ikabidi nisimame kubadilisha spark plug for I could not believe my eyes yawa...Mailooord!
Meeting up with the rest of the team was mostly uneventful other than a few roadside shenanigans that always seem to be permanently assigned to me!😒
We'd easily made it past Kisima enroute to the unmarked Mt Kenya Gate via the school of adventure route.
Tareke ngwire ma! If there's a road that's as beautiful as this one, please send me directions tondu aye!
Minus the potholes that would creep up on every other bend, these undulating hills were a mere spectacle to behold. Not to mention that we are literally ontop of the hill...We could see the far distant hills that mark the route to Isiolo behind us!
To be continued....
