I've been following the tragic attack on the Westlands mall in Nairobi with some keenness because I well remember the area from 40 years ago.
When I was in high school the mall had not been built and instead there was a rather pleasant, English-looking "garden" shopping center, called at the time simply the Westlands Shopping Center. One store in particular stands out because it was a combined toy store and book store where you could get the complete Tintin series. Personal cycling memory: Riding the ~5 miles mostly downhill from the Nairobi International School, American -- run by a private American university at the time; I think it's now a locally governed prep school -- on our bikes, friends and I would take great delight in racing the school bus and, on good days, passing it on the slower downhill corners. We never, AFAIR, beat it to the Westlands dropoff, but we came close. We'd, or I'd, stop and shoot the breeze and smoke cheap cigarettes -- Crown Bird! -- before riding off through the City on a long detour home. This must have been my senior year, '72-3, and I on my newly acquired upscale Raleigh Sprite -- 48/44 half stepped 14-24, tout Simplex Prestige, drop bar, Weinmann centerpulls, cheap Brooks. Total daily mileage including the 7 miles to school: about 23, IIRC, all on totally "fast" mode. My mother who picked up my sister in the Vauxhall Victor also took my ex-army backpack, saving me the weight (I never did homework anyway). Tempus fugit indeed! Riv content: the Sprite was lugged steel, but I did use clips and straps and had the bar lower than the saddle. -- RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED! Certified Resume Writer http://resumespecialties.com/index.html patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
