 Kudubu kwa mwazimisu, kwa mwazimisu, kwa mwazimisu, kwa mwazimisu. Kwa mwazimisu na aleks. Ehi, aleks! Alexi. Alexi mwazimisu muoto wa wak... ... Drift... ... wa wak Alexi. Ehi, kwa kazi niku drift wa lafuni... Ya, kwa wakini, hiting wa drifting. Wakini, hiting wa drifting. Drift wa wakabit. Karimusana. And he is the CEO and founder of the Let's Drift Travel Company Thank you You are camera number 3 Just introduce yourself No acknowledzi vakho zote So that they can get to know you in death So my name is Alex Kamau I'm the founder of Let's Drift Community Basically Let's Drift is an adventure community We organize travel experiences around the country So we've been here for like 2.5 years we've been organising travel experiences, that's basically what I do. Organising travel experiences. What is your background Mr. Alex? I came from the art and design background, my college studies I did art and design. I professionally worked as a graphic designer before I bumped into the travel industry. So how did you bump into the travel industry? You say it like... You say it like... The reason I say it bumped is not because it's something I intentionally got into or planned to get into. So 2017 was the year I finished college and I went back to live at home. Like the rest of us. Ya. So for me it was like I felt like I was in a crisis. I wasn't sure that I wanted to go into the workspace and work. I didn't feel like I knew who I was. So during that time I took hiking as a hobby. So I would like I come from the village in Ghidongori. So most of my weekends I spent like going out and taking photos doing hikes. You went to groups of schools? Not really. After campus I went to KU, that's when I went back home. So most of the environment at home was either helping at home or I didn't have much to do. So I basically was trying to find something I can do just to keep me creative. That's when I started photography, started hiking with a friend. And during that time when we are now exploring and taking photos that's when guys started taking interest of what we were doing. And then eventually it was like we want to join you, we want to come and go to these places you're going. And again eventually we were like ok maybe we can create a community of guys who love what we're doing. And then just take them out and show them these places how fun. Ya so that's how I say bumped into. Alright. So you are the person who takes the pictures? Ya most of the photos I take myself. Wow, please check out Let's Drift. Let's underscore drift. You're definitely going to love that page. I love the photography work. How about the graphic design? Because I see you have a KF Shop up IV. This is still your work? Ya this is some of my work. So basically one of my laws and one of my passions has always been to merge my background in photography. And design. And bring it into the adventure space. What I do I basically look at Let's Drift as a communication company. In a way what we are trying is to tell a story of the places we take people. So one of the ways we do that is through photography. It's through stories. So our law is to figure out how to package those experiences in a way that people want to like. I want to go there, I want to check out this space. I want to be part of this. So that's basically what I do. I love this. Please check out Let's Underscore Drift. So you can check out the visual art game up IV. It's crazy. I'm loving it. One motor that I like is work, drift, repeat. Work, drift, repeat. What does this mean to you as a worker, as a drifter in the repeat? So there's something I just realized when we were starting Drift. We live in an environment where it's so much papa space. Like you wake up, go to work. It's all about productivity. It's all about hustle. Secure the future. But interesting enough it's amazing what happens in life when you learn to take breaks and see things from the outside. Most of our members are people living within the city. We're able to take out every weekend out and do hiking, load trips and camping. What that means to them as I speak to them every time is that what we're doing with Drift is the only thing you're doing for yourself most of the time. Because during the five days of the week you're either working to hit the goals in the workspace to make the money. But drifting is the one thing which you're doing for yourself. It's the one thing you're doing because... It's the only time you're selfish and experiencing nature. And especially in an environment where there's a lot of mental health challenges I believe one of the best solutions is for people to get out of the city and just go and experience nature at its fullness and that they're able to recalibrate and keep in touch with themselves. Be in touch with yourself and nature definitely helps in that. Wonderful man. So I'd like to know a few things about you. Are you more of a hunter or a gatherer? What do you mean? In whatever context that you want to take it? I'm a hunter or a gatherer. I think I would say I'm a hunter. You're a hunter? I don't know. You like to kill your prey by yourself? Okay, I like that one. So if you were to cry on books like when you were painting, you were a graphic designer, you know what I mean? What color do you like? I love yellow. You love yellow for sure? It's weird that you come from Gidungudi. I expected you to come from Mayakut. Oh I'm yellow in my background. So I think yellow for me is a color of creativity. I love it's the best color to express myself. Yellow is the color for you. What is your favorite 90s jab? A song from the 90s. So I can estimate. I'm not into music. What ever other gospel song in your skin in the 90s growing up? Ahim maybe? Yes, give us that hym in the end. I grew up in a religious family. In an Adventist home, which I still am. So I think one of my favorite hym is a hym called How Great Thawat. How Great Thawat? Yeah. Okuna yo DJ. If you could be any animal in the world, which animal would you be? If I would be any animal in the world. Since you interacted with them so much. Ya. Ya. That's a tough one. Please, it's quite fishy. Ya. Definitely, I love behind. I think, let me say, I would love to be a deer maybe. A deer? Alright. Ya. Why a deer? So basically, one of my projects when I was in college, I did painting. I did a series of paintings for deers. So one thing I love about them, for me it's their beauty. And the fact that there are so many species of them. I love how they are formations and everything. How they are built. Ya. Kus you're a visual being. I get your point right there. Alright, what is the last thing you watched and why did you watch it? This is the last one. The last thing I watched? And why did you watch it? So, who is it? Takama ni YouTube. Ja na, taki ja. On the way here. Takama ni Instagram post. So I think yesterday I was on YouTube. Let me try to recall who I was watching on YouTube. I was watching, in fact she's a Kenyan YouTuber. She's an interior designer. So she was talking about how you can transform your small space. She lives in this small space. And I was interested because I also live in a small space and I was figuring out how I can make the most out of it. And I don't have to necessarily live in a big house That's the way to go. Minimalism. Ya, so I'm also kind of minimalism. Which just reminded like just like a few years ago I watched a new Netflix documentary about minimalism. So I think even my YouTube history has much of interior spaces, minimalism and those kind of stuff. Alright, quite an interesting guy right there. Ladies, if you'd like to get in touch with him. Alexu? Alex Kamao. Kamao, on IG. Alright, so we have some pictures from your Instagram page right there. I would like to talk about two or three. So please learn them out from me Mr. Producer. That is picture number one if you can say. What's going on there and what's the whole context? That photo was taken by a guy called Kosmas. That is me in the photo. It was a thing last year. So we were trekking somewhere in Kijabe. It's a lever goods. So for like 10 kilometers you were walking across the lever and then you expected to trek through a lever tunnel like one kilometer. And I think it was very exciting to close that lever. In Kijabe? That's in my mahiu. So we were starting up in mahiu and finishing somewhere in Lemuru. How do you even figure out these destinations? You will get on that one. Next picture please, what's going on there, who's there and why there? So this is a very fascinating photo. I posted it yesterday. So sometimes last month me and 3 friends decided to pack up and go for an adventure. So somewhere as we go along, one of our friends who is driving us doesn't know we are going for a camp. So for him just came with some shots and a t-shirt. And then we were in Nyeri and we were like, you know what, we came to camp. And we get into there but there are fallests and we realize that there is no network and we don't have food. So we only had 5 chapos. In fact he says that I made a milaku in the desert. So we go to this camp inside the Abadiya Forest. 2 fish and 5 chapos. So we go in this forest like there is no network. We didn't say we were going because we thought we were going and coming back. So no one said at home like I will not be there. So we get to this campsite and Abadiya can be insanely cold in the night. Luckily if we find that there were other campers at least they had some firewood and everything. But it's the craziest night I've ever had because we would just go to sleep for an hour, land to the car to Nawasha AC. Then we warm up a little bit, go back to the tent and that's how we survived that night. Wow! So we survived also dad. It's a crazy, crazy experience. Alright, the last question before you share with us. Before you share with us. Okay, we have another picture right there. So that's a place called Deya. It's a place where they mined, most people don't know, they mined the Atomite. The Atomite? Please take us back to Form 1. The Atomite is the thing that we made. So the Atomite is the stuff they use to make chalk. And the plaster. And the medical plaster that people use in the breakdown. So the Atomite is mined here. So these crazy big caves, because they mined them in caves. So when you get inside there, it's very, very artistic. You can get fantastic. Even if you go there in the night and just watch. Not really. They have cut them out in a way that they can't fall. They can't fall? Iki eni jitu mou kuna ma-engineer? Not engineer, just local people. Just local people. They have an association there. So you just get allocated your own portion. And then you keep on... There's some kind of things they check when they are mining. They have a way, they know that this is where they are. Exactly, this is where to dig, this is where to live. So it's one of the most gorgeous places to visit. So living is learning, but definitely travelling is learning. And interesting enough, most of the places we do, I would say are around the Kiambu, Nairobi area. It's not that far. I don't know, but it's a very interesting model because what we do for the other community, we charge people based on a Mandri subscription. So what happens if you pay your Mandri subscription, which is 1000, you can attend as many trips as you want. So we just meet outside in town in the morning. We jav on the mat, go and visit these waterfalls, caves. Then Iki eni jitu na pita kwa kipandaski, we eat some yama. And go back to Nairobi. And the match you can spend is 300 shillings on the fair 24. So when you play a monthly subscription, you get newsletters on the plans, the trips. The calendar every month and you're able to choose the ones you want to come. So you just take from your calendar. So if you're subscribed, you can enjoy as many as you want to. How can they get to be part of this? The viewers are the people who are in the studio because I feel like people need some downtime. Much upon our stress. Tension is so much. So you can get us through. You can check us through on Instagram at let's underscore drift. Same on Twitter at let's underscore drift. On Facebook let's drift. So you can get you can DM us in any of those pages. You can also type let's drift on your Google search and you'll find a lot of options to get in touch. So you can get up on my personal Instagram at alex.com and then you can just follow me and I think I'm going to help you how to join our community. Alright, thank you very much Mr. Alex. So kuna waliwa tu ambawa nasemanga? South Africa is very beautiful. Egypt is very beautiful. In a scale of 1 to 10, how beautiful is our country Kenya? I think you can't even measure it with other countries. We're just unique. I think this is the best place to be and I think it's about the story we tell ourselves and the story we tell about our country but I think this country is just dope. Thank you very much Mr. Alex for coming through. Let's check them out at let's underscore drift on IG and that's how you can get to be part of that community. Hit them up, they reply to DMs, they reply to everything. Thank you very much Mr. Alex for coming through. Raji the DJ is going to be playing you some music then we'll be back with a second guess and travel edition and let's travel. Let's make 2021 a beautiful year for ourselves and let's fight mental illness. Amma to encourage mental health. Good mental health. Shout out to you for being part of this. We still love like an hours drive until we figure tomati so don't go nowhere, don't take that out.