I just got home. It's great to be back in North Carolina. I've spent the past three days speaking in Scranton, PA at the Northeastern Pennsylvania Alliance Entrepreneur of the Year Luncheon and in New York City doing some press interviews.

My car's at the shop getting its roof repaired, so I took a taxi home from the airport tonight. I generally love riding in taxis and talking to the drivers. They often have such interesting stories to tell.

On the ride home tonight, the driver asked where I live (Durham) and then asked if I was born in Durham. I said, no, Pennsylvania, and then asked where he had been born. He responded that he had been born in Keyna and immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Raleigh about 9 years ago.

So I asked him about the direction Keyna is headed and about crime, entrepreneurship, and employment. He shared that he was there in February 2006 and it was a "developing country" but felt the country was headed in the right direction, that its problems could not be solved in a year or two, but in "less time than a generation."

I asked about crime in Nairoibi and he shared that it was on its way down, that the new Kibaki government was doing good. Previously you could not talk on a cell phone or it would be taken immediately he said. Now you could "hold a 100 shilling bill in the air" and it would not be taken. He shared, somewhat shockingly if true, that the government has had a very effective campaign of cracking down on thieves and pickpockets, mainly by killing anyone they caught stealing anything.

I asked about whether it was easy to start a small business there and he said it depends--"if you're a businessman and have money, yes, if you're not, no not really."

Finally, I asked about unemployment. He shared that the Kibaki government has created over 1 million new jobs since its start and that it was working hard to provide opportunities.

Just an interesting, upbeat, insight into one perspective on where Kenya's headed.