Disclaimer: I am writing this from memory, its been almost three years (June 2003). I am also leaving out most of the political commentery being that it came from a offical source. After trying many diffrent travel agents, we finaly found one that could book us tickets on Ertrian Airlines that claimd to be fliying direct into Asmara from Milan. We landed in Milan on a Monday morning, we checked the place out and checked into a nice four star hotel that I found on hotels.com for 25% of thier walk up price. After spending a little over a day in [View Full Entry]

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After realizing that I would be in Africa for 10 days, and that it would be mostly work without to much time to check the place out, I decided that I had to work some sort of adventure into our trip, namely driving from Accra to Lagos. We landed in Accra on Thursday, and were supposed to be there until Monday morning when we were supposed to fly in to Lagos. Before we had left the states I had check to see the distance between the cities as well as if there was anyone else on the WWW who had done [View Full Entry]

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After a five hour flight from JFK we landed in snowy Keflavick at about 6:00 am eager to get our trip started. The guy at the Budget desk gave us a double upgrade, so we drove out with a Suzuki Vitara for the price of a Volkswagen Gulf Wagon (USD 230). Our first stop was to check out the thermal springs and electrical plant near the blue lagoon, which was our first sighting of the hot water springs which are so common all over Iceland. After checking out the water, figuring out that we couldn't take a dip, we moved on [View Full Entry]

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