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UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 7 Feb 2026 | By debo | Views [108]
Hey! 1 week pre trip and i found my journal from the trip where Estefy and I met and thought maybe would keep a record of our return trip to South America, this time 12 years on!
We are spending the last week saying good bye to all our friends ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Fri, 30 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [42]
Our final day on the bus was relatively short—just over six hours from Al Bahah to Jeddah. I calculated the road distance between the cities that we visited from Riyadh to Jeddah at around 2000 kilometers. Adding in all the side trips and ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Wed, 28 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [53]
The thirty-kilometer drive from Al Bahah to the Heritage Village of Thee Ain took us more than an hour this morning. The vertigo-inducing road has 25 tunnels, countless switchback turns, crosses 60 bridges and descends nearly 1500 meters ... Read more >
WESTERN SAHARA | Tue, 27 Jan 2026 | By shaz | Views [143]
This part of my trip I visit Western Sahara. I crossed the El Guerguerat border between Mauritania and Western Sahara. One of those places you don’t really think about until you’re actually there. This stretch of desert sits in a long running ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Tue, 27 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [45]
Yesterday was pretty much a fill-in day—some swimming and snorkeling followed by an overnight in Yanbu on the Red Sea. Connie and I skipped the swimming—it was quite comfortable in the shade on the boat. There was nothing formal planned ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Sun, 25 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [41]
It was bitter cold this morning when we gathered for a group photo before starting the long drive to Medina. Along the way Yannis organized a brief stop at an isolated station on the Ottoman-built Hejaz railway, interesting only because a similar ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Sat, 24 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [42]
In 1983, with the mud-brick buildings crumbling around them, the last inhabitants of “Old Town” moved to the new Al’Ula city center. Much of the old town is still crumbling but a few of the buildings have been restored for tourists.... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Fri, 23 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [43]
The Saudi Arabia trip really began for me in Al’Ula, an oasis that encompasses both the old and new towns of Al’Ula, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hegra and a few attractions we weren’t aware of. Think of it as Canyonlands ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Thu, 22 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [41]
The UNESCO World Heritage Site at Jubbah may be the largest petroglyph site in Saudi Arabia but all it did was whet our appetite for AlUla. As with rock art we have seen around the world, the the artists will remain forever unknown and the meaning ... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Wed, 21 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [43]
Ushaiqer Heritage Village, about 120 mies north of Riyadh, is one of the oldest towns in the Naid region of Saudi Arabia. In its day Ushaiqer was a major stopping point for Kuwaiti, Iraqi and Iranian pilgrims on the way to Mecca to perform Hajj.... Read more >
SAUDI ARABIA | Mon, 19 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [19]
As the plane banked over the airport it looked like we were landing on Mars. Brown—pretty much what I had anticipated. Welcome to Saudi Arabia. Connie was here with the Air Force twenty-five years ago but this is a new country for me, #173.... Read more >
MAURITANIA | Thu, 15 Jan 2026 | By shaz | Views [170]
So I made it. Arrived in Nouakchott at 2am.
No transfer waiting at arrivals...fucking typical! Sat down, no airport wifi, started mentally preparing to stay there until daylight. Noticed nobody else there except me and an airport guy. He asked if ... Read more >
EGYPT | Thu, 15 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [16]
(This is for those who think we’re “Living the Dream” every day.)
“Khalāş” is my go-to reply in Egypt. Enough! It works with touts, begging kids and even dogs. And it sums ... Read more >
EGYPT | Mon, 12 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [12]
The overnight Emirates 777 flight from Accra to Dubai was packed. I felt so terrible that I strapped into my middle seat, put in my earplugs and slept the entire way. With less than two hours for the connection to Cairo it was up to Allah whether ... Read more >
GHANA | Sat, 10 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [18]
After a five-mile walk in the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary where we saw few butterflies and even fewer birds—only Tessman’s Flycatcher was new, we continued on to the tiny town of New Tafo on Thursday where we spent two nights. There ... Read more >
GHANA | Wed, 7 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [14]
The trip itinerary had us detouring three hours on a notoriously terrible road to see the Egyptian Plover, a highlight for most birders. I thought Richard would hug us when Connie said we had seen the Plover in Cameroon. Even so, it was along ... Read more >
GHANA | Tue, 6 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [14]
James continued his battle with hoards of tsetse flies as we hiked along the park’s dirt roads early this morning—even with Richard’s chauffeuring we’ve been walking six miles or more each day. None of the safari vehicles ... Read more >
GHANA | Mon, 5 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [15]
Pity Poor Richard. He was behind the wheel for eleven hours on Sunday and he will have to drive us more than 500 KM back on Wednesday. But for now he is ferrying us around Mole National Park, Ghana’s largest. No more humid rain forest, Mole ... Read more >
GHANA | Sat, 3 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [15]
Yesterday we retraced our route back to the Rain Forest Lodge, stopping again along the Gold Coast at the World Heritage Cape Coast Castle to look for the West African Crested Tern. This time we were lucky and Connie added another bird to her ... Read more >
GHANA | Fri, 2 Jan 2026 | By graynomadsusa | Views [14]
Richard had another long day of driving. We broke the five hour, 150-mile trip along the Gold Coast with a stop to look (unsuccessfully) for the West African Crested Tern but were rewarded with distant views of UNESCO World Heritage Elmina Castle.... Read more >
GHANA | Wed, 31 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [17]
# If Rain Forest Lodge is any indication, our accommodations here in Ghana will top every sub-Saharan country except South Africa.
# Chips (fries) are not made with potatoes but with plantain. The pineapple could be the best we’ve ever tasted ... Read more >
GHANA | Tue, 30 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [15]
James, the head wildlife guide for Ashanti Tours, and Richard, our driver, picked us up on Sunday morning, manhandled our luggage into the Toyota 4X4 and whisked us off to Shai Hills, the start of our Ghana birding. Or they would have whisked ... Read more >
BELGIUM | Thu, 25 Dec 2025 | By shaz | Views [53]
Iran already feels like a dream because I'm now in Brussels and suddenly it’s full on Christmas. There's twinkly lights, decorations, festive vibes and me, blinking like I’ve time travelled. Checked into my hostel which is actually lovely, ... Read more >
GHANA | Thu, 25 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [16]
Our flight left Heathrow on Christmas Eve at about the same time Santa started out from the North Pole. Rather than take the non-stop British Air flight from London to Accra, we saved $400 by flying Royal Air Moroc and spending the night in an ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [152]
The Galapagos Islands is the laboratory where Charles Darwin began developing his theory of evolution in 1835 . It took him more than 20 years of mulling, prodding from geologist Charles Lyell and botanist Joseph Hooker and competition from Alfred Russel ... Read more >