Travels Without Charley

Juba, Southern Sudan April 13, 2010 Another interesting day in the capital of Southern Sudan.  Most polling locations throughout the cou...

Juba, Southern April 12, 2010 Hassan Fataki is a somewhat short man in his late fifites.  He shows a warm smile as he approaches his pol...

Juba, Southern Sudan April 11, 2010 Polling has closed on this first day of elections on a searing hot day in the southern capital of Jub...

I've been here in South Sudan for one month now, and a lot has happened.  So much, in fact, that I really haven't had time to either...

This is my running list of the best iphone applications.  I am ordering them by how much I use them, but don't hold me to it.   I know, ...

Washington, DC is definitely an odd place. I could (and probably should) devote an entire entry to all the oddities that make up the Distri...

I made it back. The trip from Dakar to DC took about 24 hours, so I am beat, but happy to be back in the States. For the most part, the flig...

I think I am pretty much done entering all my journal information onto this blog... the only entries left are the days of travel from Mali-S...

I got down to Bamako and headed back to Eric Anderson's apartment... he was kind enough to let me stay there versus getting a hotel room...

After Yangasso, I headed back up to San. I had purposely left some of my stuff in the San Stage house and I wanted to buy a few things at t...

So very tired. Around 4:30am, the rooster Vieux gave me started cock-a-doodle-doing just about every five minutes. I'm pretty sure no ...

In the midle of the night there was a little bit of rain and a lot of wind. The Bocadari and Awa were happy it was there, but we all had to ...

This evening, I spent my time looking for my friend Chinois (he is the one on the left). His is so named because as a kid he caused problems...

Turns out a nice comfortable bed actually makes a difference... who would have thunk? My bed in Yangasso is a mat on the ground outside. It...