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The Mind-Body Problem(s)?

March 17, 2019 In Travelogues

[ Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire ] No series of updates would be complete without an overview of my health status, physical and mental. If you’ve been paying attention, you know...

Joyeux Anniversaire!

December 13, 2018 In Travelogues

[ 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...

Liberia II: Voinjama to Ganta

September 9, 2018 In Travelogues

[ 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....

Liberia I: Lofa County

September 4, 2018 In Travelogues

[ 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...

Final Days in Salone

August 28, 2018 In Travelogues

[ 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...

South to Koidu Town

August 17, 2018 In Travelogues

[ 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...

En Route: Mogo-Bendugu

August 9, 2018 In Travelogues

[ 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...

Malarial Daze

August 5, 2018 In Travelogues

[ Koidu Town, Sierra Leone ] My planned route out of Makeni was a deliberately challenging short-cut through the dense forests and primary mountain range of central Sierra...

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