Africa

Benin – 126th Country

By |2019-05-28T04:32:10-05:00November 22nd, 2018|Categories: Africa, Counting Countries 193 Countdown|

Benin – 126th Country.  To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries.  Benin is my 126th country.     Check out the best 193 travel books to read!  Benin sits in the corner of Africa between [...]

Visiting Ganvie Lake Village Benin

By |2019-08-06T17:39:52-05:00November 21st, 2018|Categories: Africa, Must-See|Tags: , , , |

Visiting Ganvie Lake Village Benin.  I sauntered onto the dock, which edged out into the lake.  A sharp sun beat down on me despite the morning hour.  A series of staircases met a multitude of pirogues that bobbed in the water, which magically hovered just above the waterline.  The pirogues were filled with wares, coming and [...]

South Africa – 123rd Country

By |2019-05-28T04:43:02-05:00August 16th, 2018|Categories: Africa, Counting Countries 193 Countdown|

To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries. South Africa is my 123rd country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! South Africa is an economic powerhouse, it is the second largest economy after [...]

Zambia – 122nd Country

By |2019-05-28T04:43:04-05:00August 13th, 2018|Categories: Africa, Counting Countries 193 Countdown|

Zambia – 122nd Country.  To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries.  Namibia is my 122nd country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read!  Landlocked Zambia became an independent nation in 1964 gaining its [...]

Zimbabwe – 121st Country

By |2019-05-28T04:44:58-05:00August 13th, 2018|Categories: Africa, Counting Countries 193 Countdown|

Zimbabwe – 121st Country.  To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries.  Zimbabwe is my 121st country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! Zimbabwe is in the news for all of the wrong [...]

Angola – 119th Country

By |2019-05-28T04:45:10-05:00August 9th, 2018|Categories: Africa, Counting Countries 193 Countdown|

To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries. Angola is my 119th country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! Angola can be found on the Atlantic Ocean in the southern part of Africa.  [...]

Namibia – 120th Country

By |2019-05-28T04:45:33-05:00August 9th, 2018|Categories: Africa, Counting Countries 193 Countdown|

To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries.  Namibia is my 120th country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! The second least densely populated country after Mongolia, Namibia is twice the size of [...]

Why Small Group Travel With G Adventures

By |2019-07-06T05:58:13-05:00August 1st, 2018|Categories: Advice, Africa|Tags: , , , |

Why Small Group Travel With G Adventures.  What is your style of travel?  I often get this question. And I don’t have a good answer.  Why is that? Because I don’t have a consistent style. I have stayed in a $3 room in the Mekong Delta, slept on a teenager’s pull-out coach in Transnistria, and lived [...]

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