by steveuj | May 18, 1991 | Asia & South Asia, Tales from a Road Warrior
Viju had invited me to Bombay. We had a number of things on our agenda but when I arrived he informed me of a slight change in plans. The first day there I was to go with him to an AIDS conference. The next morning we took his scooter to a place where we met one of...
by steveuj | May 18, 1987 | Africa, Tales from a Road Warrior
We had successfully installed several dozen computers (a mix of 8088 and 80286 machines) at Edgerton University in Kenya. It was not an easy task. To get to Edgerton you drive from Nairobi over a two lane (in the good sections) road along with the open trucks and...
by steveuj | Jul 13, 1986 | Africa, Tales from a Road Warrior
When I was in Nairobi I often rented a room from Jim (who was from Chicago) rather than stay at a hotel. He was working for a London/Nairobi based coffee company as their financial manager. Jim needed to visit their office in Moshi, Tanzania (at the base of Mount...
