by phil | Oct 31, 2018 | Stories
Please get comfortable. With your drink of choice. I am enjoying some rum with bitter lemon. In 1985, Mamady Kanta sold a parcel of land in the Badalabougou neighborhood of Bamako to Gustave Bongo, son of Omar Bongo, the President of Gabon from 1967 until his death in...
by phil | Jul 24, 2018 | thoughts
A lot of people have asked me if we chose our travel dates in order to avoid Mali’s presidential election scheduled for July 29th. The answer is no. I am not worried about my personal safety nor am I worried about widespread violence, at least not in Bamako.Some...
by phil | Jun 7, 2018 | USA
Andre trying that guitar on for size. He’s almost there. On July 25th, we are off to the states for Andre and Bintou’s second visit. We strategically chose a time of year when there is a very low risk of crossing paths with bomb cyclones or polar vortexes...
by phil | May 7, 2018 | Stories
At the beginning of 2017, I put together a list of things I wanted to accomplish for the year. This is how I did: ✓ Introduce my mom to Andre and West Africa. Mission accomplished in February of last year, right before we left for our first jakarta safari. ✓ X Ride a...
by phil | Mar 27, 2018 | Bissau
My last post was a write-up of our first scooter trip with clients. We just wrapped up another one, this time a two week trip that included Guinea-Bissau. We had another great group – the best group as it was all friends of ours – and once again, we had...
