Category: Adventures
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The road to Eldoret
I woke that morning not even aware that I was in a strange bed. After breakfast and a brief meeting, we set off on our long journey northward. Or possibly west-ward. We were certainly sharing the road with plenty of “Danger Petroleum” trucks and Kampala Coach busses. I watched the landscape, so similar to home,…
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Falling for Fort Portal
I lost my heart in Western Uganda to a small town set amidst emerald tea fields in the blue shadow of the mountains of the moon. We travelled up from Kampala by bus on a hot, sticky summer’s day. The road wound up and up, past pampas fields and random felt until, slowly, we found…
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Place and music
“Ain’t it funny how a melody can bring back a memory Take you to another place in time Completely change your state of mind” Clint Black, “State of Mind” Music. Melody, words, rhythm carry the echoes of another time, another place. Korea has been on my mind a lot lately. Daegu, Busan, Gyeongju, Jecheon, the…