The Man of Steel
Man – talk about road buzz. 14 hours at speed on the crappiest excuse for a national highway I’ve ever seen. Fourteen hours in an airplane can get you to […]
Category Archives: liberia
Goin’ up the Country…
Looking smart in my four-day-old travel khakis, black t-shirt (sink-washed, mostly dry) and inappropriate shoes, I’m getting ready to go offline for a couple of days. Plan is to try […]
Things that aren’t there
There are three things I remember about Liberia: the searing, overwhelming heat that hits you in a wave when you step out of the plane. The deep red rust-colored dirt […]
Positive Mental Attitude. Not.
You know? The “relentlessly cheerful” thing has been flagging a bit. Yeah, I did make my connection, running late in the back row of an Airbus that seemed, um, boarding-challenged. […]
Not according to plan
Okay, that didn’t go according to plan. No problem. I’m stuck in London for the night. Or rather, in the Heathrow Sheraton, awaiting tomorrow’s Air France flight out to Monrovia […]
Tired on the outbound leg
You know that dictum that “work expands to fill the available time”? I’m slowly realizing that it also applies to travel preparations. Back when I was with Google.org, we’d occasionally […]
Lorien’s Crazy Day (and “Who Wants to Winter Over?”)
Three years ago today I was thinking about how crazy and complicated my life was. I was franticly throwing stuff together as I prepared to head down to the freakin’ […]
The Count
[Transcribed from my notebook, scribbled out in the dark as it happened] The scene is surreal. Two electric Coleman lanterns dimly illuminate the pair of plankwood benches pushed together in […]
Election Day
Didn’t get to sleep stupidly late last night, but didn’t get that early bedtime I was hoping for, either. The urgent “Don’t go to sleep until you’ve retrieved the important […]
As ready as we can be
[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]
David Pablo Cohn 