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So we had a week off of class, so Sunita, Shari and I decdided to go to Togo and Benin after a long process of figuring out the getting to Mali is neither cheap or easy. We hired a car to take us from Avis. Beofre we get anywhere, though, we ahve to cross the border. Interesting and very telling of the difference between francophone and anglophone countries. The girls at the Ghanaian side of the border jsut checked our visas and stamped our passports in a respectable, four-sided building. The...

From hotel room to waiting room…another airport lounge. All different but all essentially the same (save for the magnificent Kansai, of course!) though even KXI can’t quite shrug off that terrible mix of transience and tedium. Waiting, always waiting. The people change but somehow all still seems the same. There is a stagnancy and inertia that is at odds with the purpose of the building It has a dynamic reason for being, it is for moving and traveling and acting like great hearts pumping ...

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a long trip from germany to cap town by own car.

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