Seat 64K
There’s something unearthly about being in seat 64K on a British Airways 747. The fact that an airplane can be large enough to have 64 rows and still lift itself […]
Category Archives: africa
"This is why we practice"
This has been Glen’s constant refrain the past few days. Recall that we’re in Ghana as an advance trip for a group that’s going to be brought over early next […]
Way the heck beyond Kumasi
Ten p.m.in Accra and we’ve been going since godawful early this morning. Our little band of adventurers has been to Kumasi, been celebrated by schools full of rural girls who […]
Into the Ashanti Kingdom
Tired this morning, waiting for the morning flight to Kumasi. Yeah, another morning, another flight. By Friday I will have been on 10 different aircraft run by four different airlines. […]
Superpowers
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 […]
More to come…
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 […]
An Unlikely Place From Which to be Blogging
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 […]
The Other West Point
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 – Day 1
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 […]
Xpress Travel(tm)
Eight fifteen a.m. on the 24th, and I think buzz saw operator outside our window has been working since about 7:30. His compatriots, with their thick, friendly west African accents […]
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