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Rwanda to Uganda: From Gorillas to Potato Trucks. Feb 8 Time to leave my wonderful little village of Kinigi. It is time to get out of Rwanda. I had not ambition to leave the ‘Land of thousand hills and a million smiles,’ but I need to start making some miles and some dust. Time for the move from Rwanda to Uganda. I feel like I am going to cheat a lot of countries out of a lot of time, but...
Kinigi: Football and Rwanda Bits. Feb 7 (cont’d) I returned from my gorilla trek to Kinigi. I love Kinigi. It is my favorite village of all of my African travels. As soon as I went to the market I ran into Theo. I wanted lunch so I brought him along. The tour guides from today had earlier told me to eat in the hotel where I am staying, saying it was the only safe place in town to eat. However,...
Kinigi: Drunk Diaries…Reflections on a Day After Drinking Banana Beer. Feb 6 Wow, where to start… Life is a gift…. Shit, I just looked at my notes and I did not get some things completed today that I really wanted to accomplish, because I had an amazing day as a consequence. I need more of me. Or I need my helpful editor to become my personal assistant…. It sure would be nice if mom and dad were from ABBA. I...
Gisenyi to Kinigi: Dian Fossey Gorilla Facts and Child Mobs. Feb 5 [su_box title=”A Dumb-White Guy Conversation with my Motorcycle Taxi Driver” box_color=”#d2cece” title_color=”#070606″]Me – “Have you ever seen the gorillas?” Taxi guy – “What?” Me – “You looking gorillas?” Taxi guy – “Have I gorillas?” Me – “Yes.” Taxi guy – “No, gorillas in forest.” [/su_box] It is amazing how much small situations can totally alter your entire direction and where you are going in life. I do not mean,...
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August 3, 2008 Bangkok, Thailand -Sex Show [su_dropcap]I[/su_dropcap]t was early August and my German girlfriend and I had just left Australia on a cheap flight to squeaky…
February 7, 2016 Today was a special day where I went to spend an hour with a silverback gorilla family in the mountains of Rwanda. It was…
January 10, 2017 Anyone ever heard of a band called Electric Eel Shock? There is a reason why you haven’t. The reason why you haven’t heard of…
May 4, 2014 Breakfast was at 8:30am, and I was the last to arrive. I was still feeling effects of the chicha, the local corn-moonshine we had…
July 26, 2014 I wish I could say that we were inside of a pristine shiny and sterile cocaine lab that I had pictured in my mind…
June 3, 2016 Convincing a 20 year old to get out of bed at 10:30 is no easy feat… It turns out that playing Slayer really loud…
March 15, 2014 We were up early to meet a group of three other gringos at Central station at 10am. We were early. We were tired. We…
January 30, 2015 My father was hanging out with me in the basement, and then he began getting his band equipment together to haul upstairs to load…
March 18, 2013 Want the recipe for a fascinating day? This one serves three: Step One – Get Ingredients and Heat up the Oven It started when…
January 7, 2007 Phuket, Thailand Sex Show 7 January 2007. Well, my buddy Mike and I made it to Phuket, Thailand. It was evening when we arrived…