[ Adzopé, Côte d’Ivoire ] To the wonderment of none, I did not manage to depart Yopougon on Monday as planned. Completing all those overdue posts (for my blog and Facebook)...
[ Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire ] As the previous blog posts (mostly) explain, I’ve several technical setbacks—camera, computer, smartphone, and website. Most of them...
[ 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...
[ Koidu Town, Sierra Leone ] I spend a day drinking palm wine with my new friends in Mogo-Bendugu, then head south—at long last moving toward Liberia. A death-defying motorcycle...
[ Koidu Town, Sierra Leone ] After leaving the health post in Kunya, I well and truly left the map behind me. It took me five days to cover the 110km to Mogo-Bendugu, from...
Allow me to present a short video demonstrating the lack of hyperbole when I said I rode “exceptionally small trails.” I departed radically from anything that might reasonably...