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Marsabit

Marsabit.  It’s a bit like Mars, but without the long trek across the solar system. Though after nine spine-rattling hours  along a dusty, boulder strewn road, I staggered out of the 4×4 Land Rover looking as if I’d just spent a month in space.  The landscape was an incredible mix of red volcanic rock and [...]

Helpless

Water flows out of the well and onto the dusty hands of 50 or so laughing school children who crowd in to get a drink during a break between classes.  The school is a cinder-block shell along a sandy road deep in the bush of southern Mozambique and the very fact that it exists at [...]

Solo Travels

Asia is the only place on earth where you can go to a McDonalds and order a McRice Burger. It’s also the only place where, while waiting in line for your McRice Burger, you might stand behind a Caucasian man with a shaved head wearing Birkenstocks and a British wool cardigan pulled over top a [...]