I arrived late in Accra from São Tomé and had a fun time clearing passport control before getting on the plane. The guy literally went stamp-by-stamp through my passport and asked why I’d been to those places. “Tourism. Tourism. Tourism.” It got old. I also had a good laugh about showing my boarding pass 4…
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I arrived late at night in São Tomé, capital of São Tomé & Principe, a small, 2-island nation off the coast of Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Booking this place had been a bit of a whirlwind, between Airbnb hosts either not replying to me or telling me to book them on another site/bring cash (which…
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I had 2 VERY different experiences in Angola. The first was a day trip while waiting to visit some other countries around Africa. The second arrival resulted in a barred entry & deportation. Here we go. First, I had to get to São Paulo, where I’d found an ‘error fare’ from. I’m consistently amazed by…
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I’ll be honest to say that we didn’t like Guyana that much. Maybe, if we’d gone deep into the jungles, it would be cooler. The city had a weird vibe, tons of sewage issues causing bad smells everywhere, nothing very exciting to do… We mostly relaxed during our 3 days here. The highlight was seeing…
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We had an interesting visit, and not in a good way. First, we showed up at the airport in Port of Spain, Trinidad to check in. Everything was going well, until they said my wife’s yellow fever vaccination certificate wasn’t acceptable. 3 flights between leaving and now, and everyone had said it was fine. She…
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