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 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...
Opportunities In Turkmen Rejection: The Uzbekistan Visa On Arrival Loophole…For Americans

Opportunities In Turkmen Rejection: The Uzbekistan Visa On Arrival Loophole…For Americans

 Sometimes, all the planning in the world can’t stop travel from being…travel.We’ve acquired visas to places like Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. We’ve defied countless odds in moving hundreds of our monsooners to remote corners as far as Antarctica....