Wynn was something else, man. Interesting that it's still there. Also liked the Trump Hotel slightly off the strip like Strat. Cheap but classy kiasi. A lot of places are there for a while then disappear to smithereens after some years. That chopper company we used for example is looooong gone.
Nice plan you have there. Except the ending part of not wanting to come back to Kwiinya
One thing I realised from visiting Kwiinya every December hols for at least 3-4 weeks every year and moving back eventually for good, is that there is a huge difference between short term visits versus living here permanently.
I can't emphasize that enough. When I first arrived I thought I knew Kwiinya pretty well during all those yearly visits. Shock on me. I had so much more to learn once I landed.
US mindset does NOT work here at all, at all, at all. You have to reconfigure your thinking almost 100%. If you want to hang out with non-mediocre, non-drunk people (I too used to be very irritated with the drinking + partying culture hapa, especially since I quit drinking over a decade ago) you need to move in non-drunk, non-mediocre circles. Something a person cannot do within a 3-4 week vacation. Those circles are not very accessible nor visible unless you've been hapa on the ground at least a year or so.
Also, as you well know, there is no hurry in Afrikwaa, so PATIENCE is a skill one needs to learn while here, especially on mambos like building your diggz, buying shambas, getting documents and so on. Funnily enough that easy, slowed-down pace has been good for my soul. Has made me stop and smell the roses instead of having a twenty-point to do list that I used to have every morning for the day while in TSA. Working incredibly hard, chasing worthless dollars, yet missing out on the simpler things that are FREE that really have import in the final analysis. Like spending
QUALITY time with your wife and kids. Not just dinner dates and brief evening interactions after jobo or bizna.
My best memories growing up as a kid were always the long trips my late dad would take us on once every year. To Nakuru or Mombasa and so on. 3 to 4 days pamoja with no distractions really made us bond as a family. I try to do that very often with my family sasa. In TSA, let's be honest, this is hardly possible. Like the
Kenny Chesney song "Don't Blink" -- it is very easy hapo to miss out on your babies growing up and turning into mom's and dad's hapo despite them living in your house! Mum and dad are always working, and when they get home they are too tired to do anything else except maybe slump on the sofa and watch TV, beer in hand to tamp that stress tampuuu.
Finally, as I said in other posts, besides the social capital and relaxed pace, one of the best things I enjoy about Kwiinya is nature and the outdoors. No country on earth comes close. I love that ka-drive down the escarpment to Naivasha. As well as Suswa-Ntulelei-Narok past gold-tinged wheat fields glinting under the African sun. I usually load up my USB with hundreds of songs and a few podcasts for the long drive and cruise nyweeeeeeeeeeeeeee while the sun courses across the sky. Few things in life are as enjoyable as that, man. Mombasa road to Namanga past Bisil is also dreamy. Emali to Loitoktok pia. I really underestimated Loitoktok town. Now it's my favourite town in Kajiado by far. Kili views, semi-chilly weather, small town feel, the works! Reminds me sana of Aguas Calientes huko kwa wakina Jose na Wamehihano/South Americans wenzake. I really, really enjoyed my time there (Loitoktok). Lake Magadi is also very unique. And of course I have to big up wakina Lokichokio
and the surreal views of the jade sea (Lake Turkana) at Eliye Springs hapo. Add the Rift Valley lakes (bogoria especially) and it's a wrap. Yet that is just the extreme tip of the iceberg. You can explore nature in Kwiinya by going to a different place every month and will never run out of places to go for 50 years. And lets not talk about the food. Alulululuuuuu forget about the nyamchoms na kadhalika (very nice too). Lamu cuisine is out of this world.Those waarabus know their stuff man. I miss drinking ukwaju juice while lazing on the balcony in MSA watching the waves bobble bubulu, bubulu, bubulu up and down while camels are being moved across the beach. Add all sorts of varieties of local foods from all over Kwiinya down to the yummy mahindi choma or chili mangoes.
But I know Nkooks will find some way to rebut and disagree
bitterly 
But anyway, as I said, Kila nyani na starehe zage. US got old for me around 2005 to 2007 hapo. Maybe because I had retired and was very idle and there was not much else for me to do hapo. Memories galore of that place that place that place I tells ya, but I would never wanna live there again ever. For others, US is the place to be and I don't begrudge them. For me, Kwiinya is where it is at. Even the ordinary things like walking through tao, especially the lesser known sections towards what Kwiinyans here call downtown (Nyamakima, Luthuli, Matiba Rd and so on i.e. less posh sections of Kanairo) is a feast for the senses. You can literally get anything hapo, but chunga fakes and conmen
!. Went looking for a bosch drill and solar panels hapo juzi and got all I wanted and more. Talking to people (social capital) while buying things and bargaining is also extremely enjoyable for me. Bottom line, I love my motherland, man. Flaws and all.
Ni hayo tu
Beautiful escarpment drive
Road to Narok 
Loitoktok 1
Lake Turkana at Eliye
Bogoria
Delicious ukwaju 
Lamu food festival
Luthuli Ave Electronics 
