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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

A woman in the back of the airplane screamed, which only served to put everyone else more on edge. It’s just a little turbulence, I thought, I mean if every time it– The plane rocked violently, and she screamed again. Alright, that’s a lot of turbulence. Still, though! It was a rough approach to Dubai International. On top of that, you couldn’t see anything: sand, smog, both, I don’t know. I was watching the screen where you could see the flight statistics–air speed, temperature, altitude, etc.–and the altitude was in the low 100s, in feet….

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

After Lusaka, our next stop was Zanzibar. That was the plan, and had been the plan for a while. But flights there were incredibly expensive. I was getting very discouraged while looking for flights back in South Luangwa (you’ll remember that I was fairly on edge about expenses while there…) An interesting answer materialized. For a little more than the cheapest tickets available, Ethiopian Airlines had flights that connected through Addis Ababa. But Ethiopian will let you extend that layover…

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Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

We had no intention of going to Johannesburg. On top of being “just another big city,” we both independently felt like it was one of the more dangerous places we considered going. South Africa in general, to put it lightly, has some issues with crime. “Oh, it’d be the greatest country in the world if it weren’t for all the crime,” a South African we met in Istanbul airport, months later, said to us. He may not be a wrong…

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Ciudad de México

Ciudad de México

Erika and I didn’t want to pass through Mexico City without actually seeing it. We also didn’t have a lot of time available in Mexico, though, and wanted to focus most of it in San Miguel de Allende. So, we planned for just one full day in Mexico’s capital at the end of the trip, where we’d do as much as we possibly could in that one day. We got into the bus station from San Miguel in late afternoon,…

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