Niger At Last: A Second Chance

Niger At Last: A Second Chance

  11 months ago, I sat on the tarmac in Niger’s International Airport at Niamey, watching my trip evaporate due to visa complications. The Niger Embassy in Washington D.C. had stopped issuing visas to Americans entirely.     But I don’t give...
The Marshall Islands: Home of Godzilla & Spongebob

The Marshall Islands: Home of Godzilla & Spongebob

 Another journey of a lifetime begins today: I head from one lonely part of the world to another.After a week of working overnight shifts at an isolated rural hospital in Rome, NY (about an hour out from Syracuse in upstate NY), I had an Uber pick me up...