So what am I doing in Douala, Cameroon? Other than sweating in the heat and humidity, that is? And now I hear this is actually the "cold" season, it gets so hot in December and January that the locals can't stand it. And I did research the best time to come here! I am in Douala for 3 months to volunteer with an organization (started by a Canadian) called The Humanity Exchange (thehumanityexchange.org - In partnership with local communities, The Humanity Excha...

I've been able to see more of Cameroon on the weekends, but haven't posted much of it in the blog so I'm going to try to catch up. A few weeks ago I went to a Pentacostal Charismatic church, a church that believes (according to Wikepedia) in a spirituality characterized by a worldview where miracles, signs and wonders, and other supernatural occurrences are expected to be present in the lives of believers, including the presence of spiritual gifts, such as proph...

From Rabat I took the train to Casablanca to join a 14 day GAdventures tour called Highlights of Morocco (http://www.gadventures.com/trips/highlights-of-morocco/DCHM/2013/). It was fun to have traveling companions and to have all the logistics done for me so all I had to do was follow our able CEO, Ismail (a Hanafi but only in the positive definition as someone with lots of knowledge). The tour went from Casablanca east to Mekness and Fez (Fez has a huge Medina,...

From Gibraltar I took the ferry across to Tangier, Morocco which meant entering Spain (and so back into a Schengen country, again just a glance at my passport but I didn't need a stamp so this time I just walked through with everyone else) and then leaving Spain a few hours later. I arrived in Tangier and found my hotel in the Medina (the old, walled part of the city, full of narrow twisty streets, very easy to get lost) with some help. I took a tour which re...

All the reading I had done on the Schengen rules indicated that they might not check but they might so you definitely want to leave the Schengen countries before the 90 days are up. Gibraltar is owned by the UK which means it is out of Schengen, so on the 90th day I crossed over into Gibraltar - and all they had at the border was someone glancing at your passport as you held it out and walked past. So I circled back and said I needed a stamp because of Scheng...