We’re down to three now: Paul had to fly home last night, and Greg woke up this morning feeling like yesterday’s breakfast warmed over. So Pete, Jenny and I are […]

The first thing you notice is the heat. Crimfickeny, it’s hot here. Official airport temp is somewhere over 100F, and stepping out of the airstairs and down onto the pavement […]

I realized it about fifteen seconds after we turned left at the “Burma Camp Cantonment” sign on Independence Road. Something was bothering me, but I couldn’t put my finger on […]

Oh Accra, you crazy city, you. Way behind on the updates, of course. Yesterday: morning at g|Ghana, mingling with developers, then afternoon at the Google Accra office, setting up some […]

Okay – airborne out of Lagos, enroute to Accra. Departure day was almost entirely uneventful, not counting some amusing/annoying security theater on the way out. Luisella was in charge of […]

The moment: we’re dancing, outdoors, under canopy on a rooftop somewhere near the ocean. Juliet, the Lagos office manager, has pulled me from my seat, and I stumble through my […]

Starting out on this adventure, I found myself wondering whether I should start a separate blog somewhere else so that I didn’t have to worry about calling my mother to […]

Approaching the coast of Dakar, the ambien haze lifts enough to let me sit up and look around. I’ve woken early, and will still be under the sway of Mephistopheles Morpheus […]

Crossing that gap between the preparation and actual start of a trip is an imperceptible thing. When you’re knee deep in unanswered voicemail to some West African consulate that won’t […]