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Full eyes, tired feet
Blog: Where the road goes - 5 January 2012
Up at 04h30. In Entebbe airport by 06h00. On a plane by 08h30 and starting the long trek home. It’s all so managed. So clean. In your seat. Eat your meal. Listen to music or fall asleep for distraction. I feel awry in the whitespace. My clothes are filthy, and probably smell a little. My [...]
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Live from Bunia
Blog: Where the road goes - 22 December 2011
[From the hip] So let me get say this right off. Ituri district is absolutely nothing like what you have been told the Eastern DRC is. It’s undeveloped, and it has crap roads – these things are true. But it is also full of really friendly people, to whom we have not had to pay a [...]
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Inhale
Blog: Where the road goes - 29 October 2011
I’ve been holding my breath a lot the last fortnight or so. Catching myself needing to stop, unclench and breathe a little easier, over and over again. The invitation letter I need for my visa came through today. The fixer is confirmed. A thousand ephemeral shards of some implausible dream have suddenly spliced themselves together [...]
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Orbital
Blog: Where the road goes - 1 October 2011
Two years and some some change ago, on a dark rooftop in Addis Ababa, I recall having my thousandth Ethiopian espresso with Jonathan, a friend and adventuresome soul who had come to join me for my days in the country on my slow road north to Cairo. I can’t recall much about the setting, besides [...]
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Mountain Gorilla Adventures
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 16 June 2011
What’s the best thing we have have ever done in our travels? It’s a question we are asked all the time. Most people would probably guess that such an absurdly broad question would be almost impossible to answer. In reality, it’s quite easy. The most amazing thing we have ever done is visit the mountain [...]
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Video – Nikon D90 Shines in Africa
Blog: GoBackpacking - 17 April 2010
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Bienvenu a Kinshasa!
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 22 June 2009
Not long after my Kenya Airways flight slalomed into N’djili Airport, I began to hear the noise. Drum beats. Cheering. Flag-waving masses of people. “Wow,” I thought, “what a welcome.” I had heard the Congolese were welcoming, but this is a bit over the top! It turns out the ad-hoc parade wasn’t for me (Bummer!) but [...]
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