2 Fast 2 Furious I’ve been known to travel pretty fast, and have even been criticized that my style of stopping in to a country for one or two nights isn’t really “seeing” a country. While I completely disagree and refute that claim, I will be the first to admit that my time here in…
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Miles and Smiles The appetizer: a couple paragraphs about planning, pivoting and redeeming airline miles for this trip, so if that’s not your thing, feel free to scroll down to the good stuff – you won’t hurt my feelings. This trip (Malawi>Tanzania>Comoros) was salvaged from a bigger trip that I had to cancel. The original…
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I was on the border of Malawi and Moçambique (Malawi side), when I discovered my absolute favorite soda in the whole wide world! My driver Zinenani walked me across the street for a cold “Fanta,” however the vendor was actually selling a brand of soda called Sobo. I was hot and thirsty, and these…
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Getting There My hotel (okay, resort) was a little over an hour away from Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport and in the opposite direction of the island’s capital and most populous city, St. Louis. It too, was almost an hour away. The airport here really was in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps that was the…
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Preface Africa is more than huge. It’s humongous. It’s an absolute behemoth for someone trying to visit every country on the continent. There are 54 of them! But despite the obvious challenges of time, distance and cost, there are a handful of countries in Africa that are either tough to get into as a foreigner,…
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October 2021: Seven amazing countries, starting in Europe, a Central Asia “Stan”-apalooza and a nice UK wrap up. Here are seven photos of seven countries…enjoy! #166 – Bulgaria My second attempt at getting into this country – and I barely made it in. The city was beautiful! I was surprised by all the big,…
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Quickie It broke my heart to spend so little time in such an amazing city as Edinburgh…it was not my intention, but sometimes you just have to deal with inflexible flight schedules. I’d found an amazing deal on a British Airways business class ticket, mid-pandemic, back in March of 2021. The airlines were almost giving…
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BEEN I’ll start by noting that Northern Ireland is not its own country. Well, I guess it depends on who you ask; but it is definitely not one of the 193 fully recognized nations that I’m on a mission to visit. It belongs to the UK, just like Scotland, Wales and a handful of others….
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