No Longer Fun to Travel Home

stanmwa

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Looking at the traffic situation, it is no longer fun to travel home for holidays. Traffic was unbearable at Kijabe, Gilgil, kenol Muranga, Maai Mahiu, you name it. My local town was jam packed on 24th Dec, you could not even walk.


You can imagine the loss of time and resources experienced this year. I guess that it is about time that we chose better ways of spending our holidays. These trend has to stop.
 

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Pole sana, it happened to most, some of us are lucky, we only meet with the herd at a certain summit and then we are home free. Moving against the crowd has its advantages.
 
I made that decision December of 2014.
I left Nairobi early enough (based on normal travel tines) around 4pm on the 24th and on reaching Kimende area traffic crawled to a stop and that was my first time to witness the gridlock that happens in that area.
Once over lappers started doing their thing anyone moving anywhere became impossible.
We arrived in Nakuru way past midnight after many hours of cursing, inconvenience and frustrations.
The following day we sat as a family and decided there was nothing that important we go to do in shags during the Christmas period to keep putting ourselves in such situations.
 
Pagan holidays will always attract the fury of God. Jam, accidents, floods, etc being the punishment for the sins.

Let's learn to observe only the festivities annoited by Jehovah, and we won't witness such madness.
Ahh yes. Traffic jams, Jehova's favourite means of dealing justice to the heathens.
We shall never forget the jam at the shores red sea during the exodus!
 
Hols is good tradition coz whole village iko home same time.

Kids meet grt gandpa, grt grandma, grandpa, grandma, as parents meet mom, dad...everyone meets cousins, aunties, uncles, old friends, village clowns and get chance to eat together one large meal, celebrate each other's successes together...

They say the best gift you can be given by someone is a memory.

Unless you have the power to create your own time when you can summon the whole village home, hii tradition remains unbeatable.
 
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I've seen a change with people who live at the coast, they travel around jamhuri day and stay for a week or more and return to their businesses by 23. They evade most of the traffic jam and manage to sell their wares during Christmas
 
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