Lingering in Abidjan
[ Yopougon-Sable, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire ] Hello Transglobalistas, and greetings from Abidjan (still). Why have I stayed this long? Inertia, and a more-necessary-than-I-thought mental health
[ Yopougon-Sable, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire ] Hello Transglobalistas, and greetings from Abidjan (still). Why have I stayed this long? Inertia, and a more-necessary-than-I-thought mental health
[ Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire ] I arrived in Man almost two weeks ago to meet a friend and ride together for a few days. That
[ Danane, Côte d’Ivoire ] Early in the morning of September 23rd, I rode eastward out of Ganta, back onto gravel and into happy uncertainty.
[ Ganta, Liberia ] When I roll out of Ganta tomorrow morning, it marks the end of a two-week stopover–the longest I have been in
[ Ganta, Liberia ] After spending four nights in the barracks of the Liberian National Police in Voinjama, I started my push along the interior
[ Voinjama, Liberia ] Hello everyone, and fondest regards from Country Number Eight on this madcap voyage of ours. You’ll (not) be shocked to hear
[ Foya City, Liberia ] Koidu Town, Sierra Leone’s fourth-largest city, is tiny—roughly 125,000 beings in a town founded on diamonds and blood. To me
[ Koidu Town, Sierra Leone ] I spend a day drinking palm wine with my new friends in Mogo-Bendugu, then head south—at long last moving
[ Koidu Town, Sierra Leone ] After leaving the health post in Kunya, I well and truly left the map behind me. It took me five days
Allow me to present a short video demonstrating the lack of hyperbole when I said I rode “exceptionally small trails.” I departed radically from anything
[ Koidu Town, Sierra Leone ] My planned route out of Makeni was a deliberately challenging short-cut through the dense forests and primary mountain range of central
[ Makeni, Sierra Leone ] Having lingered much longer than anticipated, today I’m back on the road and out of touch for who knows how