Crossing the Chari River My arrival at Chad was full of surprises. First of all, my experience with the Chadian Immigration was exactly the opposite of what I experienced at the Cameroonian side of the …
The Journey of a thousand miles starts with a step The initial plan was to travel to at least seven African countries in the space of 3 weeks. In as much as I had a …
Do we take a bus or do we walk to King’s Cross Station? I asked Sylvester. Hmmm, Odogwu that place no far naaa, let’s walk down to the place, it’s less than 5 minutes from …
We waited a few more minutes for some safety announcements and then took off. We had a female pilot flying us and these all made the trip exciting. We left Beauvais Airport in Paris to …
I had always wanted to travel to France ever since the first time I visit London in 2014 and made friends with French people. The desire to visit was also fueled by my going to …
Learning a Foreign Language I was inspired to learn French after my first visit to London for a training sponsored by my employer. During those days in a hostel I stayed in London, I had …
Leaving Bissau After the wonderful evening I had with my friends Costa and Nelson from Bissau and some tourists from Portugal who were in the hotel with me, I decided it was time to move …
I arrived Brikama moments later, I spent like 10 minutes at the park before getting a shared taxi to the border. The 35-minute ride to the Senegalese-Gambia border cost only 50 Dalasis ($1). Immigration stamping …
I went through the list of checklist of all the things I needed for my travels the next day. I had earlier gone to the market that same Thursday to buy things I would need …
Joel Oleson arrived Nigeria on a Wednesday and we were meant to travel Benin, Togo and Ghana. Joel happens to be one of those American guys that has been a lot of inspiration to me. …
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