Africa
The People Who Made Room for Me
I went to Pakistan for the mountains and to Jordan for Petra. I didn’t plan those trips around hospitality, though it became…
Place
Mauritania
5 stories from this part of the world.
Stories
From Mauritania.
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Africa
I Kept Trying to Pay. They Kept Refusing.
There is a particular loneliness to long solo trips that rarely makes it into the photographs. You can spend a day surrounded…
Africa
From Morocco to Senegal Without Getting on a Plane
I crossed from Morocco into Mauritania and eventually into Senegal without taking a flight. The whole trip took about six weeks. On…
Africa
Twenty Hours on an Iron-Ore Train in Mauritania
The ski goggles were the first clue that this wasn’t going to be a comfortable train ride. My host in Nouakchott helped…
Africa
The Water That Wasn’t There
The bus from Agadir to Dakhla took twenty-one hours. I sat near the front, watching the landscape through the windshield and talking…