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TRAVEL/AFRICA
Kenya Awaits Me, but Please Remember I Will Be Back Next Month
I won’t be able to write while I am gone
3 min readAug 19, 2022
Next week I will be leaving for Africa.
My brother and I are visiting Kenya for ten days.
It’s exciting but so complicated to travel. Getting there is half the battle; hoping you get home from a foreign country without any issues is the other half.
The win is the time in between.
- Passport
- Visa
- COVID vaccine proof (has to be uploaded to a website, and a QR code is generated to prove your compliance.)
- Flight to New York from Cleveland to connect with the Kenya Airlines flight, and hope it doesn’t get canceled. That’s a big concern right now.
- A mobile phone that can be used for international calls.
- Face masks for everywhere.
- Typhoid and Hep A vaccines cost me $250. Malaria pills were not too expensive. I had a Yellow Fever vaccine already, and that’s good for life.
- Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), so we can receive the latest travel updates (security issues especially), and the U.S. Embassy knows we are…