2024

I started the year with a January/February trip to West Africa: Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone.  It was a small tour organized by Original World Travel.  The four of us went with our guide, Traore Mohamed (nicknamed Momo, pictured below), on a combination of modes of transportation: flights, minibus, and boats.  It was an excellent trip.

In September, Joanne and I went to the Eagle Festival in Mongolia, with a fun but too short stop in Turkey to visit  Cappadocia and Istanbul.  I then flew to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.  In October, I made three stops on the Horn of Africa (Somaliland, Djibouti, and Eritrea), topped off with a final stop in Afghanistan.