7.1 August 23, 1967 Letter from Frank
August 23 Dear Folks, We finally arrived at Kigari. This is a beautiful spot! Our house faces the southeast and we overlook the plain down toward the ocean just as far as we can see. Visibility today was about 25 to 30 miles and then things vanished into haze. We of course could not see the ocean, but it goes down hill from here to the ocean. Our house is a three bedroom stone structure with a tile roof and plastered on the inside with nice sized windows looking out over the plain. We are about 30 miles from the top of Mt. Kenya, and we haven't been able to see it yet because of clouds. We are about 5700 feet altitude here and are about 70 miles south of the equator, but the temperatures are very mild. Nights are down right cool and days are comfortable in shirt sleeves, and of course this is their cool season. So far we have about every kind of fruit growing here at the school. Tropical fruit that is. We have bananas and grapefruit growing i...