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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

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Frontier: Cote d’Ivoire

[ Danane, Côte d’Ivoire ] Early in the morning of September 23rd, I rode eastward out of Ganta, back onto gravel and into happy uncertainty.

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Liberia III: Gompa City

[ 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

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Liberia I: Lofa County

[ Voinjama, Liberia ] Hello everyone, and fondest regards from Country Number Eight on this madcap voyage of ours. You’ll (not) be shocked to hear

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Final Days in Salone

[ 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

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South to Koidu Town

[ 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

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En Route: Mogo-Bendugu

[ 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

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The Shortcut

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

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Malarial Daze

[ 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

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One Year Later

[ Makeni, Sierra Leone ] Having lingered much longer than anticipated, today I’m back on the road and out of touch for who knows how

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