2024-11-27, 04:27 PM
OK so I've still been to a few that you haven't but, what a continent. What attracted you to Africa? For me, I wanted to venture into the "third world" and that would mean either Latin American or Africa. If I went to Latin America, and did not like it, there would be no place to go but home. If I went to Africa, OTOH, I could take a ship to India (which I did eventually). That was the basis for the decision 
Oh my I was young and naive.
We look at Mercator Projection maps, and don't realize how huge Africa is, because it is shrunk (relative to North America, or the US) by being closer to the equator. I traveled at least 6000 miles, on roads that were often 30 mph or less. You know how those roads can be! So you could spend a life time.. and still have vast swaths of some of those countries unvisited.
But you've chipped away at quite a list! I am impressed by your perseverance. I know that some of those days can be pretty hard.
Oh my I was young and naive.We look at Mercator Projection maps, and don't realize how huge Africa is, because it is shrunk (relative to North America, or the US) by being closer to the equator. I traveled at least 6000 miles, on roads that were often 30 mph or less. You know how those roads can be! So you could spend a life time.. and still have vast swaths of some of those countries unvisited.
But you've chipped away at quite a list! I am impressed by your perseverance. I know that some of those days can be pretty hard.