The First Month & Monsoon of the Year Is….ABIDJAN-UARY!

The First Month & Monsoon of the Year Is….ABIDJAN-UARY!

  The end of 2022 was coming around and nobody was yet taking up my offer to repeat our Caribbean adventure last January. So my gut started talking and I began to consider postponing the original plan in favor of a different excursion. Poking around options...
Meet the Ivoirians!

Meet the Ivoirians!

  Only 3 weeks home and we’re going back to West Africa. I had announced this trip less than a month ago while in Dakar, expecting nobody to sign up. I’d only be in the Ivory Coast for a day, after all; who’d be crazy enough to join? Well, Gina...
Crossing from The Gambia -> Senegal -> Guinea-Bissau

Crossing from The Gambia -> Senegal -> Guinea-Bissau

 Starting from an hour’s south of Banjul at a last minute villa I found on Booking.com in Old Yundum, we set out at 6:30am in the morning. Good timing because we started driving approximately 5 minutes right after the power went out in the house from what...