The Rest of the Trip After Kumasi Arrival and The Trip From Hell
June 22, 2018 - 17 June
Even though we set the alarm for 0700 in hopes of sleeping a little later, both of us were up at 0630 after may...
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Ghanaian Van Ride From Hell
June 17, 2018 - The trip in the van was getting long and there was no end in sight. We stopped just before dusk for a bathroom stop. The...
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Lots of Cote d'Ivoire - In and Out, 15 and 16 June
June 16, 2018 - We woke up early on the 15th and neither of us had had a good night sleeping. We did most of our packing and then went d...
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Liberia, Liberia... Uggh, Liberia
June 15, 2018 - From the Ducor Palace, we drove down the hill and headed into the West Point Township slums. We parked at a Total gas st...
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Abidjan and Environs - 14 June
June 15, 2018 - Breakfast at the Onomo Hotel was quite good with the widest selection of food we’ve seen, excellent pastries, yogurt, an...
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Goodbye Liberia, Bonjour Cote d'Ivoire!
June 13, 2018 - 13 June
Skipping forward quite a bit I’m now writing as we’re en route to the Roberts Airport, almost a two hour drive...
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Early Liberia Impressions - More to Follow
June 13, 2018 - We arrived right on time at Payne International Airport in Monrovia. On the flight in from Accra, we bounced around a li...
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9-11 June Gambia Back to Senegal and on to Liberia
June 11, 2018 - Trying to get this out--pardon the (probably)many typos.
More 9 June
The National Museum of Banjul was a surprisingl...
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Catching Up With The Gambia
June 11, 2018 - Writing on 10 June…
Wow, now I have to journal our entire time in The Gambia (@thesmilingcoastofafrica, #gambiahasdec...
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More Traveling in Senegal and Into The Gambia
June 08, 2018 - 6 June Continued
After spending most of the afternoon working on photos and the blog, I decided to do a little walk-a...
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The First Few Days
June 06, 2018 - I've been trying to take notes as we go, typing with my thumbs on my Google Pixel XL phone and can't keep up because we'...
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The Next Update -- Brought to You from the Bar of La Hotel de la Poste
June 06, 2018 - We arrived in Lompoul and after a few minutes rendez-voused with a four wheel drive pickup truck that would take us to t...
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En Route
June 02, 2018 - We successfully made it to DIA have fueled up and it's on to the Big Apple.
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A New Adventure
June 02, 2018 - Starting out this morning on a new adventure with six carefully chosen cadets and Becky. We'll be leaving the house at 0...
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