Yearly Archives: 2012
Akwaaba to Ghana!
After Jeremy, Michelle and I bused and tro tro-ed from North to South, ate our way through groundnut stews and mangoes, got some Azunto dance lessons from the streets and lived without power (“it is lights out”) in our home-way-from-home … Continue reading
Posted in West Africa Discovery
Tagged backpacking, ghana, operation groundswell, west africa discovery
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You, Me and Ayiti
In less than 12 hours, OG Haiti Grassroots Engineering will begin! All of our preparations are complete and we’re super stoked that our team is arriving very soon. We won’t bore you with too long an update but there’s a … Continue reading
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Namaste from India!
Cock a doodle doo… About 5am, I wake up to my first morning in Nepal to the sound of a rooster. Really? A rooster in the heart of downtown Kathmandu, in the middle of the tourist hub, Thamel! That is … Continue reading
Bon Bagay en Ayiti!
And so it begins… Another year, another summer of OG trips and another new faraway place to call ‘home’ for a few months. But this summer, its a little different. This summer, instead of criss-crossing one or even several countries … Continue reading
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What backpackers do when they stay home
It is the same thing every time. A gasp, and a look of puzzlement before they say something like, “You’re not going abroad? Aren’t you sad that you aren’t doing anything cool?” After 5 years of traveling in East Africa, … Continue reading
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