Well, I'm off again. It's actually been a year and half since my last extended trip (Thailand), and this one has been talked about for a few months but is actually going to happen... tomorrow! My friend John Carson, invited me to be part of his Kenya trip this year to help tell the story that he has been a part of for several years now.

We'll be flying to London, and then into Nairobi, Kenya tomorrow. From there we drive a full day to Eldoret in the northwest, and then a bit farther to Kokwe, where we'll spend a little more than a week. We'll be hanging out with a group of Kenyan runners, Olympians in fact, filming how they train and telling their stories. A few of them will be traveling to Toronto this June to run in the Festival of Excellence featuring Usain Bolt, so this will help us tell the human interest side of the their story.

John has also been involved in a micro-enterprise program in the village, a school and a medical clinic. We'll be delivering 4 laptops, a few soccer balls and several cases of selenium, a naturally occurring mineral that has shown promise in treating HIV/AIDS, which affects 15% of adult Kenyans. I'm looking forward to shooting some video that tells a story or two and will be excited to share those when we get back on the 21st of March.

Oh yes, we're also going on a three day Safari in the Masai Mara Game Reserve at the end of our trip! Can't really go to Africa and not do that.

UPDATE: See my favourite Kenya pictures here!

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Was given this great link today from Mike Shanks, and it confirms what I've known and seen coming for years. In fact I've had two conversations just today with people who are wanting to use video to make their websites more interactive.

Read through the articles when you get a chance and see what others are saying about video. They are commenting primarily on video in real estate, but the applications are far broader than that.

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