A bientot Abidjan!

“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” I still remember this quote from my college graduation commencement. Since then, it has stuck in my head as a way to look at change, new experiences, and life in general. You can’t always plan things and even if you do, life has a…

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Abidjan to Accra | West African Road Trip

We jokingly termed our friendsgiving week road trip to and from Accra, Ghana as our West African garden route road trip. And although it wasn’t a garden route, there was much to see and hear along the way. The road peppered with little towns with people bustling about, marketplaces packed with people, the roadside “mama”…

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et Voila! | Côte d’Ivoire

Here we are in Abidjan…poised to begin another adventure together, this time alongside our son. I immediately fell in love with the food available here…from delicious pastries to fresh seafood but I felt like a fish out of water and searching for something to make this new place feel like home. I was initially a…

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