In September, 1980, a year after I graduated from college, I made a solo trip to Africa and traveled around there for almost 3 months. My grandiose plan was to start in Casablanca, cross the Sahara, do a safari in Kenya and travel the length of the Nile. Well, it didn't work out that way, but that was part of the adventure.Why did I do it? (All my friends asked at the time.) I had the idea that within a few years I would be tied down with a career and family and unable to do something like this and would always regret it if I hadn't. And 28 years later, I know that I was absolutely right.
I didn't bring a camera on the trip, but I did bring a notebook and this is the journal that I kept. I've "borrowed" other people's pictures to illustrate the types of things I saw.
You can read these posts in sequence, by going to the Blog Archive on the left and clicking open the 1980 entries and finding the earliest post.
Steve Taylor
April 27, 2008
PHOTO CREDIT
