On August 4, 2014, I left my home in Bethesda, MD—a suburb of Washington, DC—for a bit of a journey on my motorcycle, a ’13 BMW R1200 GS Adventure (nicknamed, The Mule). The first part of this journey was reported on my last post in this blog. Let’s look now at the Part II, the…
On August 4, 2014, I left my home in Bethesda, MD—a suburb of Washington, DC—for a bit of a journey on my motorcycle, a ’13 BMW R1200 GS Adventure (nicknamed, The Mule). The Mule in Bethesda, MD, a few days before the departure The Plan The original idea was to leave home heading west across…
Traveling-wise, 2023 was an interesting year for me. It began in late-January with a move to my new country of residence: the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By the end of December, I had taken 66 flights, logging nearly 115,000 miles, spending 276h 57m inside planes. This according to FlghtRadar24.com! But fortunately, traveling in 2023…
Guadeloupe, 04JUN2022. Long taxi ride from the airport to my hotel. Ended up thinking a bit about my life-long relationship with this island. And what an interesting one it is, indeed! Guadeloupe was the final destination on the very first time that I got on a plane heading to a foreign country for the sole…
The Aguda of the Bight of Benin is a community composed of what Professor Yai designates “three supporting pillars” [1]: the descendants of the Portuguese traders who settled in the region in the 1700s; the descendants of the Brazilian traders who came soon after; and the descendants of the retornados, i.e., former slaves who settled…
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