Stories

I can't help it, I have to call this Timesaver tip - Banish the Bitch. It may not appear to be a Timesaver tip at first, but read on....

Back in 1988 a song was released called "I Would Walk 500 Miles" by The Proclaimers. I absolutely hated it, and of course they played it...

Cruising around Bata on an urban photo safari. Equatorial Guinea or EG as we all call it, is a very small country, with a population...

Fresh drinking water, who ever thinks twice about it? You just go to your kitchen whenever you want some, either from a faucet, or...

Well that was a bust from the perspective of taking lots of photos at a local market! Tourism is not obviously promoted here, perhaps...

It's Friday night and I have planned a visit to the local craft market tomorrow morning. I'm so excited to be actually getting out to do...

Its quite a trek to get to Bata in Equatorial Guinea. Nine hour flight from Houston to Paris; six hour flight to Douala, Cameroon; one...

Guess who is leaving on a jet plane again today? Yep, me! Stay tuned to find out where this time. I will be posting a blog when I get...

It's wonderful to travel but always so good to be home again and in my case, back to making soap. As I was away for the last two months I...

We're not in Kansas, and there sure is a lot of dust in the wind! Remember that song: Dust In The Wind? I had to go find a youtube of it....

Goree Island, just off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is infamous for its role as the gateway to hell for the peoples of many West African...

We found them! Where? Bandia Reserve is a 15 hectare (3,700 acre) wildlife reserve about 65kms (40 miles) drive from Dakar, Senegal. You...

Waving to y’all from across the Atlantic Ocean and singing Happy Birthday to me! I’m at Les Mamelles (the breasts, in French) Lighthouse....

I had to go downtown Dakar in search of a drip filter coffee machine this afternoon. No Amazon Prime here. It was the same craziness that...

After hearing about Lake Retba (Lac Rose as the locals call it) here in Senegal, I did some research. There are 8 pink lakes (that are...

There I was pottering around making soap at home in Houston and BAM I am now in Dakar, Senegal, the westernmost point of Africa. NEW...

What do you do when you get a phone call offering you a job overseas for a while? You grab it with both hands! That's what happened for...