[ Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire ] Hello everyone, and Happy Anniversary! It’s hard to believe, but one year ago today my plane landed in Casablanca. Little did I know what...
[ Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire ] One of the advantages of living outside the United States—and they are legion—is a chance to observe the spectacle of Western living from...
[ Yopougon-Sable, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire ] Hello Transglobalistas, and greetings from Abidjan (still). Why have I stayed this long? Inertia, and a more-necessary-than-I-thought...
[ Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire ] I arrived in Man almost two weeks ago to meet a friend and ride together for a few days. That friend is Amy Haass—my former skydiving...
[ Danane, Côte d’Ivoire ] Early in the morning of September 23rd, I rode eastward out of Ganta, back onto gravel and into happy uncertainty. I hoped to cross into Ivory...
[ Ganta, Liberia ] When I roll out of Ganta tomorrow morning, it marks the end of a two-week stopover–the longest I have been in a single location since departing Casablanca...
[ Ganta, Liberia ] After spending four nights in the barracks of the Liberian National Police in Voinjama, I started my push along the interior border towards Ivory Coast....
[ Voinjama, Liberia ] Hello everyone, and fondest regards from Country Number Eight on this madcap voyage of ours. You’ll (not) be shocked to hear that the malaria isn’t...
[ Foya City, Liberia ] Koidu Town, Sierra Leone’s fourth-largest city, is tiny—roughly 125,000 beings in a town founded on diamonds and blood. To me it seemed a sprawling...