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A few people asked me to say more about the high cost of visiting Equatorial Guinea. Yes, a basic hotel room really does cost $400-500 a night, and sometimes much more. There are no hostels with merry young backpackers hanging out at the beer garden, and no home exchange vacationers looking to trade housing from an offshore oil center with an apartment in a hipster neighborhood in Portland, Oregon ...
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Greetings, friends and readers. Today I'm back in Vancouver, Canada—en route to Frankfurt and beyond for my next monster trip. I tried to head out on part of this trip a few weeks ago, but got "volcanoed" along with so many other travelers around the world. The word on the street is that the volcano is still doing its thing from time to time, but all systems are go for now. Today I'll fly to Europe, and this weekend I head south to the equator for a week in Central Africa ...
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