… 30 minutes later I had a car hoot outside my apartment and knew that was Marvin, so I grabbed my phone and jacket and left the house, on the co-driver’s seat was Kevin which meant that I was going to definitely seat at the back, my plans were working perfectly well and I knew the gods were not asleep. So I jump at the back seat and almost in Unisom both Marvin and Kevin ask “Na leo Budah umeamua ni back seat eh?” (Querying my decision to take the back seat which is not of me to do so, without a fight, I love front seat) In normal circumstances Kevin could have been the one taking the back seat, didn’t matter whether I found the duo in the car. Unknown to the duo, my seating at the back and them at the front, were strategic moves to enable me accomplish my mission.
Five Kilometers down the line; I had already sent friend requests to the duo and accepted them. Mission 1 accomplished. Back to mission 2 (getting to lead the duo to Tina’s place), on this mission I needed not to worry because I had tons of hours to accomplish the mission, close to 8 hours before we reached in Nyatike, where my main task would be to lead the team to Apida village. So I slept off at the back seat, several hours later we had arrived in Kisii town and we decided to have some Nyamchom before proceeding off. You all remember how much money I had and this lunch was going to be on my bill, never to worry I paid.
Back in the car, I knew Migori was a 1-2 hour drive and from Migori to Nyatike roughly same hour drive as per my Google maps. So once again I slept off, till we reached in Migori where we decided to re-fuel and cool off the car engine before proceeding off. In my mind I knew we were going on a Mission impossible, You see you can’t be three adults in a car driving hundreds of kilometers to nowhere (Off course the other two adults could be forgiven because they accompanied a friend trusting and believing he was taking them somewhere). After grabbing some fresh drinks from the petrol station’s mini-supermarket we embark on our journey, all this while I was busy playing some games with my phone, unknown to me, the battery had run very low, we embarked on our journey through some rough road, definitely my expertise was going to be needed here.
All of sudden, everything was moving too fast; first I went to check on the printed Google directions to Nyatike in my jacket and found nothing. It then occurred to me that Satan had decided that this mission had to fail, (on this day, I was a marked man, either by Satan himself or by one of his powerful angels). How do you explain the fact that I picked a wrong jacket and left the jacket that had my Power bank and the printed Google directions to Nyatike? As if that was not enough, I checked Tee’s phone number in my phone only to remember that I never saved it, checking dialed calls only to find a cleared log? Few seconds later the phone goes off, No power bank to charge my phone, can’t access face book to get Tee’s number? Where was I even taking these guys?
In the middle of my worries Marvin asked “Tunapitia hii route and hiyo ingine” Aki Saitan, we had come to a junction with two different routes, thinking very fast, I told Marvin, to park the car because I wanted to go and relieve myself, at the same time I gave my phone to Kevin to charge it for me using the car’s charge. I rushed to the near bush, my intention was to buy time to get my phone charged, switch it on and get Tee’s number. In the bush, a miracle happened I met some guy who was in the same mission as mine (Relieving himself), he came to my rescue, and told me that both roads could lead to Nyatike town but the one on the right hand side was the shortest.
Back to the car, another miracle happened, I saw the car bonnet opened and both Marvin and Kevin leaning by it, honestly I didn’t care what was wrong with the car, all I wanted was time, get as much time as possible to put my act together. So I picked my phone from the front seat where it was charging, switched it on, only to realize that I had company again, Satan was not finished with me, “No network” my phone screamed. I almost felt like fainting when I saw Marvin closing the car bonnet, lucky for me, the bush miracle was going to buy me some time, “just drive using the road on the right hand side, both roads can lead us to Nyatike but that is the shortest” I said to Marvin with lots of confidence as if I even knew where Nyatike was, leave alone Apida.
We drove off as I thanked God and Blackberry Company for giving us a phone with magical features. Those of you with blackberry smart phones will agree with me that it’s the best phone ever, can’t compare with android. You see for blackberry phones the notifications from all apps, social sites , mail box, mgs, will all pop up on your screen and are kept there till you decide to delete them, and you can access them even without internet connections . So I got Tee’s number from our initial FB chats and immediately saved it both on the phone and on my Mulika Mwizi’s phonebook, in fact I could have tattooed it on my palm. (That’s how desperate I was)
We arrived in Nyatike town and I excused myself to go and get a bottle of water, you all know I was going to call Tee for directions. I rush to some nearby hotel away from my friends, thank God we had network, I tried calling Tee, only to be met by that annoying lady of “Mteja wa Nambari uliopiga hapatikani kwa sasa” “Sorry the mobile subscriber cannot be reached” I looked at my phone almost smashing it on the floor, only to be reminded of how much I spent to buy it from Jumia Online shop, so I carefully returned it in my pocket. Yes, I could not walk out of the car with a Mulika Mwizi, this is Luo land, the land, of swag, Swag had to be maintained, long story short, I met some boda boda guy who claimed to know mwalimu’s daughter and where they stayed. He used to carry mwalimu to school every morning and evening, but it was almost a month since schools opened and had not seen mwalimu.
I invited him to the car, we drove some few minutes to mwalimu’s place in Apida, we alighted very eager to finally set my eyes on Tina, and we dismissed the temporary tour guide with some 200 bob note. Marvin the think tank advised against me going first and instead let Kevin was go and knock at the door and do all the ground work. You see Kevin is this polite dude with a very innocent face, every stranger will just love him and respect him; he was best fit for the mission. Marvin and I had reversed the car away from the gate, you don’t go hunting for someone’s daughter and park on the main gate, yet the daughter does not even know your existence let alone your mission. You always don’t want to raise hopes of your future in laws by parking a Mark II at their front gate, yet it’s a friend’s car. As a man, you must think and re-think more so in the hunting game, in-laws can be stubborn, so you must score it right from the word go. Marvin told me. This guy was a genius, I said to myself.
I saw Kevin back from the house, head down, and I knew something was wrong. Either he was sent away with a panga or reprimanded, “We all know parents and their daughters”. Far from it, Kevin came; open the front car door sat and said “Guys, bad luck, your Tina and her family moved to Kisumu a week ago and the new tenants were family friends, the only information they had was that Tina was now working with one of the supermarkets in Kisumu. We sat there, disappointed and hopeless, I looked at my friends, non-wanted to speak to me, apart from Marvin who said, guys lets go.
Then I knew Mission Tina was still on!
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