Another country, another challenge. Actually, the people at the Gabonese Embassy turned out to be the best – ever! Wednesday Got up early and walked to the embassy. All I needed that I didn’t have was a copy of my hotel booking and my Congo visa. Probably not getting copies here at the embassy 🙂…

Someday countries in Africa will figure out how to assign street numbers. So, I arrived after dark. My favorite. Both google and booking.com could not identify the address. I tried each and drove in circles before finally contacting the host/manager, Mouinda…. Let’s just say I was on the other side of town – and Brazzaville…

13 hours, 30 minutes, 550 kilometers (340 miles) I can see it, but I just can’t get there from here. I’m not complaining, but 90 minutes to go 300 meters? Google just wouldn’t shut the fuck up. Somewhere in the midst and the mist, I would lose my sense of reality. This map does nothing…

Let’s just say the worst hotel. Ever. I’m actually speechless (wordless). I don’t really know how to describe it other than a halfway house or a room by the hour place? Generators Rule the Congo So, the power goes out all the time and the whole hotel also smells like diesel, but the worst part?…