Chapter photos from Crocodile Love, my new travel memoir
byThese photographs from our trip through Pakistan, India, Ghana, The Gambia serve as the chapter openers to CROCODILE LOVE: Travel tales from an Extended Honeymoon.
Africa
Sara Kunda homecoming
byChapter Thirty-two: Sara Kunda homecoming Sara Kunda is a north bank village, located not quite halfway up the Gambia River. Sutay had been taken in…
Ghana Will Always Win! Africa story wins the silver in 2012 Solas travel writing awards
byTravel and Sports Silver Winner: “Ghana Will Always Win” by Joshua Berman The author experiences World Cup fever on the Gold Coast It was…
Travel Memoir to write home about: Two big thumbs up for Julian Smith’s ‘Crossing the Heart of Africa’
byI first picked up Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith not so much for the author’s…
Malian-Americana Folk Music Mash-Up: Adam Klein Returns to Mali with a guitar and a cameraman
by[The following article appears in the Fall 2010 print issue of Worldview, the magazine of the National Peace Corps Association (I love getting to…
Go Black Stars! Ghana goes bananas! Tranquilo Traveler digs up World Cup 2006 posts
byAs Ghana celebrates its first win in the 2010 World Cup, I thought I’d take a look back. Exactly four years ago, my wife…
Musicians who travel: Bela Fleck goes to Africa, produces amazing film
byBanjo virtuoso Bela Fleck brings his instrument back to its native Africa in Throw Down Your Heart, a phenomenal documentary film which came out…
Africa Trek—Couple’s 8,700-mile Walking Honeymoon across Africa now Available in the U.S.
byWhen most couples are planning a honeymoon, they are looking for paradise. White sand beaches, blue oceans and roasting temperatures are often sought after….
Daniela Petrova on the Pitfalls of Volunteering Abroad
byIn her recent article for World Hum, “A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe,” writer Daniela Petrova “looked down her nose at tourists…
Ghana girls dorm is finished!
byLast October, I posted a plea from Peace Corps Volunteer Carl Allen in Northern Ghana, who was raising funds to build a girls’ dorm…