[Yikes – just realized that I never posted this. Slightly out of chronological order, sorry!] Final leg of the flight home to San Francisco. Last night the gibbous moon rose […]

Ethiopian Airlines, flight 928 leaving Monrovia. Such a wild mashup of cultures – men with heavy Liberian accents, women in fabulous Ghanian dresses, and the Ahmaric (or is it Akan […]

Not had a moment to rub two brain cells together since I last wrote. Yes, we made it back from Harper. Had a great conversation with our Russian pilot during […]

We’re at 1000′ feet, southbound along the Liberian coast in the back of a UNMIL helicopter, and I’ve got China Cat Sunflower stuck in my mind (thank you, Jill). Elbow […]

Near-full moon straight overhead shines through a thin mottle of clouds, along with a sky of stars turned sideways. The warm wet ocean breeze blows in from oout there, out […]

Liberia is hot. Not as hot as Ghana will be, I’m told (oh crap!), but more than enough for northern boy here. In the back seat of the van, repeatedly […]

Southbound at 35000 feet, crossing over into Algeria at sunset. Last sliver of the sun has dipped like a sleepy goldfish below the clouds lining the west horizon, and the […]

Okay, I promise, this’ll be the last update from Heathrow. Getting on the Accra flight in an hour. Planning to,at least. But it seems such a shame to be stuck […]

Some time around midnight (somewhere), I woke and peered out under the shuttered cabin window at the polar night sky. Always hard to see much through the plastic and glass […]