Onze
Exciting News! Hello from Conakry, Guinea! It's hard to believe we're already in the throes of 2019. Time just seems to be flying here on the ship. I think my sense of time is so connected to the weather and using seasons as markers for its passage. I keep hearing about 'Polar Vortexes' and blizzards back home in Minnesota, and while I'm not necessarily sad to be missing out on -50 degree temperatures, I do miss the way these weather events offer a linear chronology, adding context and perspective to life itself. Here in the Guinean dry season, I don't need to check on the weather forecast, it'll be 87 degrees and sunny every, single, day. This makes for a kind of time purgatory and so I have to measure this passage with some other context-provider - I just don't know what that should be. Which bag of coffee I'm currently drinking maybe? Last month was the era of German coffee roaster, Coffee Circle. (By the way, thanks for that gift, Jonas. It w...
