Briana's Travels

I'm a little behind on my blog posts since we've been so busy in the last week - I'm going to try to catch up with this post and one more this week, and then post once a week or so for the rest of our trip. Last Friday (July 27) we - me, Toby, Ella, and a Kenyan PhD student from George Washington University Joanne - drove to a town called Mogotio in Baringo County in central Kenya. I  collaborated with a Kenyan colleague of mine who got her PhD at George Washington University and did a postdoc at the Smithsonian, Habiba, to put together a workshop on teaching evolution for Kenyan high school biology teachers in Mogotio. Me, Joanne, Ella, and Toby at our lunch stop in Naivasha Me and Toby crossing the equator for the first time, on the way to Mogotio We stayed in a lovely hotel and conference center owned by Habiba's sister (or aunt? both were there) called Lomanira Splendour . We got there in time to have dinner and settle into our rooms, and meet up with