Benin travel stories

Jeans and Basketball

Good Evening. I am a little sick, but only a little. Nothing unexpected, and nothing a few papaya seeds won’t jettison. Tonite, I want to talk about two things I love: no, not peanut butter and c...

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Good Friends and Killer Hair

So… A shot of sodabe and one and a half grand Castels later… I opened my mail. Two very good friends of mine had mailed me a book of selected essays/extracts, picked by famous authors themselve...

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Animals

In a non-related story, Ghislain came to my door Christmas Eve day with the head-forester-guy for the entire Mono-Couffo region, who had brought pythons in bags to be set free “en brusse” near ...

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Holidays

Happy New Year!Happy New Year! That’s “Happy New Year” in Mina too. I partied heartily for both holidays. I spent Christmas with my family in Aplahoue. I arrived Saturday evening an...

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Monkey Corn and then Some...

Today I was walking out in the African cornfield with Ghislain, in search of monkeys preparing ears of corn to eat. The combination of the smells of hot vegetation, the corn and grass taller than m...

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