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Benin City – Departure and Ride to, well, Benin (Cotonou)
10 hours, 30 minutes (google doesn’t know shit about border crossings), 500 kilometers (300 miles) Daily Diary Why not Lagos (Laahgos or LaDizzy, please)? Well, let’s just start with the fact that I already got clipped in a town 50x smaller than Lagos, and rode through a mess of a town 10x smaller than Lagos,…
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Douala – Arrival and Departure to Benin (via Gabon), Ethiopia, Rome, Chicago, Ethiopia, Benin, and Arrival Back in Douala (via Gabon again)
8 days, 36,000 kilometers (21,600 miles) Daily Diary Yeah, right. I’ll just sum it all up for you. There was no way that I was going to be able to cross from Cameroon into Nigeria without an actual visa. I had the e-visa, but the only port of entry that would allow me through was…
