West Africa by Land Air or Sea
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West Africa by Land Air or Sea
Lome Togo West Africa
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
I am haunted by words told be by Mark in Bangkok, Thailand, of:
http://www.itinerantwitness.com
Something like,
- You take planes all the time; therefore, it must be acceptable for a traveler to fly and not do a land trip. -
http://www.hobotraveler.com/2005/04/traveler-versus-tourist.html
http://www.hobotraveler.com/travelervstourist.shtml
I am now thinking about flying from Lome, Togo to Abidjan, Ivory Coast to avoid using my Ghana visa now, save for the future, and also to avoid a road I already know, I have this funny feeling, like I am disobeying a rule, and maybe I helped make them.
There are some weird rules in my head, I do not know how they got there, and one is,
- Never return the same way you went.
This more or less means , if I took highway 66 there, I would take highway 70 back , if for some reason I need to return to the same location. Somehow, this has involved to the traveler term,
- Loops -
What is your loop?
My brain, it is not as young as before, all the thoughts are starting to mash together, this is ok, but annoying to me.
Well, if I go directly by road from Lome to Abidjan, then I am on the same path, it is not a loop. If I fly, I can jump to a good starting point and travel from Abidjan, Ivory coast to Liberia and onward to Senegal.
Mark, I now I am thinking about violating some non-defined, non-existent groups of rules on how to travel, how to say, I am a traveler. I am avoiding the pain of the hard road, I want to jump and start the hard road on a new path, one I have not crossed.
I do believe land trips are somehow what a real traveler does, I would hate to say, I flew into Lagos, Nigeria, therefore I understand Nigeria. I guess, I would know, think, I did not get dirty, I did not touch the people, I just glared at them out the window of a taxi. It is also a dilemma with driving a car, I can look out the window from inside my aquarium and maybe I say, I know Togo or West Africa, or maybe I know what a 4-wheel drive is like.
To buy a motorcycle or drive a car, seem of very little value if you go from big city to big city, I want a car or bike to go off-road where the public transportation slows from three hours for 100 kilometers to 10 hours for 100 kilometers, and again, I guess to save the pain.
Does a traveler need to feel pain to say he did it?
Somebody moved into my brain, set up housekeeping, and now they are playing Ping Pong.
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