Picto Diary

Picto Diary - 15 December 2018 - Sao Tome and Principe

...but you could backstop a séance with the rhythmical, eerie, haunting Tchiloli performance and probably get good results.

Picto Diary - 14 December 2018 - Disease in Africa

Napoleon started out with 400K troops...returned, defeated by Typhus, with 20K troops.

Picto Diary - 13 December 2018 - Null Island

At NULL ISLAND. 0 degrees latitude. 0 degrees longitude.

Picto Diary - 11 December 2018 - Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

In all my years of travel and motorcycling, I've never seen anything like this.

Picto Diary - 10 December 2018 - Dr. Livingstone, I Presume

"Dr. Livingston, I presume."

Picto Diary - 09 December 2019 - Slavery

Over a 200 year period of active slave trade, 14 million Africans were captured and moved as slaves to the Americas...of which 500K to US.

Picto Diary - 08 December 2018 - Banjul, The Gambia

Grim economy, as it stands today, offers little future for these boys...short of working their way north to Europe, legally or not...usually not.

Picto Diary - 07 December 2018 - Dakar, Senegal

Our guide, Dou Dou, said that authorities are thinking of restarting the Paris Dakar rally in 2020. Since 2007 risks of terrorism along the route have attenuated.

Picto Diary - 06 December 2018 - Deck Five

"Doobee Brothers." "Listen to the Music." "The people need something to make them happy."

Picto Diary - 05 December 2018 - Cape Verde

I was a bit nervous. The grades were up to 18%.

Picto Diary - 03, 04 December 2018 - At Sea between Canary Islands and Cape Verde

Will there be consequences if free cultures renege on that "responsibility?"

Picto Diary - 1, 2 December 2018 - Canary Islands

From 1492, the Canary Islands, twelve days sail from the Spanish port of Cadiz, was a way point for all Spanish shipping between Spain and the New World.