SHAVE YOUR BEARD, HIPPIE! GET OUT OF UGANDA!
Uganda Frontier to Entebbe, Lake Victoria – Kampala I entered Uganda with my Yugoslavian mining engineer friend, by wining andContinue Reading
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The Venerable Beads of Bida
Bida is an extraordinary place, a dynamic, bustling Nigerian town with sophisticated brass and other metals fabrication. It’s also aContinue Reading
Riding the Rails to Cotonou
Dr. Hans-Peter Richter drove Hiro and me from Savalou half an hour to the nearby Dassa-Zoumé Train Station when ourContinue Reading
It’s forbidden! This is a military base! LEAVE
It was awesome arriving in Agadez! I had started across the Sahara on a whim in Algiers 15 days agoContinue Reading
Border Guards: “Please wait until we finish bathing…” Tamanrasset to Agadez
My Japanese friend Hiro (whom I met the day before) and I checked into Algerian Border Control and Customs atContinue Reading
Hijacked to Cuba, Or Getting the Most of an Unfortunate Situation
My flight from freezing Ithaca, NY left early on my Christmas Break to Florida in 1968. We arrived early atContinue Reading
Cantorbury Tales 