My memories of USA and what makes the nation great

A small lake near Los Angeles in California. We studied about California in our Form 4 geography in Kenya. [Photo: XN Iraki/Standard]

Exactly 10 years ago, this June, I left Trumpland back to Kenya. I was welcomed six months later by 2007 post poll chaos. How time passes. On an intellectual sojourn, I spent six good years of my life in the land of opportunity and home of the brave.

It was a long cherished dream ignited much earlier by my Form Four geography which made us study a lot about USA. There were topics on Tennessee Valley Authority, Irrigation in California’s Central Valley, and urbanisation in New York. We drew maps of Manhattan Island and its bridges and tunnels from the mainland.