Caipirinhas and Spike Proteins

pulling into Assomada on the island of Santiago About 5 months ago we took a group of clients to Cape Verde on a Scoot West Africa trip. It was less of a scoot trip and more of a drinking hiking and drinking trip. That’s right, we are a very versatile travel...

The Biannual Personal Life Update (v.Spring 2021)

Hey there. It’s been nine months since I last posted here. It feels like years have gone by, though. Given recent events, pandemic, newborn, toddler-now-preschooler, collapsed lung, I am just happy I remembered to renew the domain name. When I last wrote, we...

A View From Voluntary Lockdown in Bamako, Mali

fort architecture Some blog posts will tell you in advance how much time it will take you to read them. I am going to offer a different metric that relates to how much this post will depress you. At the moment, it sits squarely in the middle between “ca va...

End of 2019 Life Update

In my last post, I was in South Africa. I was having skin cancer removed from my forehead and we were preparing to move our hotel and restaurant in Bamako. That was 6 months ago. July and August were difficult months. The new landlord of what is now the old sleeping...