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Lake Bosomtwe
“Abroad is the place where we stay up late, follow impulse and find ourselves as wide open as when we are in love. We live without a past or a future, for a moment at least, and are ourselves up for grabs and open to interpretation. We even may become mysterious – to others, at first, and sometimes to ourselves” – Pico Iyer, Salon Standing in the calm of that warm shallow lake, my feet sinking beneath its soft sand, I had to admire exactly where I was. Just outside the bustling city of smog and dust, weathered “roads”, crumbling concrete infrastructure and mud-walled homes with rusty tin rooftops was…
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Reckless Abandon
"Here I am, where I am supposed to be" - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 'Out of Africa.'
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The Despair of the Privileged
It hits you all at once the moment you step off the plane. The first gulp of monstrously humid night lets you know that western civilization is over and you're in "the third world."