Brendan's Adventures

I know I’ve backtracked a little bit on the roll of the story, but getting videos uploaded has been its typical struggle.  While internet has not been hard to find, a plug in for my computer has.  I could get 3G internet on the beach here, but there are too few plugs and my laptop [...]

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks.  I expected to enjoy my time in Burkina Faso, I have never met someone that had a bad thing to say about this country.  But I didn’t expect to feel as giddy about it as I have.  The country is just so full of a diverse variety of [...]

The thing about travelling so much is that almost everywhere you go reminds you of somewhere you’ve been before.  And while I really do enjoy the places that remind me of nowhere else I’ve ever been, I also get a kick out of places that make me reminisce.  While many places in Mali remind me of [...]

Just a short while ago I wrote a piece and photo article on what was easily one of the best travel experiences I’ve ever had: witnessing the stilt dancers of Cote d’Ivoire.  While hiking well off the highway and arriving in the beautiful village in North-West Cote d’Ivoire would have likely been reward enough, as soon [...]

  A Bunch of Pictures of a Church – Yamoussoukro Basilica ————————————————– At first, I thought about writing a agnostically-charge article about the abuse of religious spending in developing nations. I thought about writing about what a shame it was that wherever I travel in the developing world different religious organizations spend millions of dollars [...]

The area around Man, Cote d’Ivoire was a very pleasant surprise.  The beautiful hills seem to rise out of the landscape like green camel backs.  After a seriously long journey to get to Man, I took a couple days of relaxation before heading off on what I thought was going to be a simple climb. [...]

This a video from my youtube travel channel “It’s My Life 365″.  Basically, like all my travel videos, this isn’t just a motorcycle crash video, this is a clipping from my entire day.  The premise of the show, if you haven’t seen it yet, is to take a 3-7 minute cross-section of my life each [...]

I wrote an article about coming to the realization that I really needed to chill out a little bit more while travelling.  The truth is that in Africa so far I hadn’t stayed in one place longer than 5 nights for over 3 months.  You see, it’s quite easy to always be looking ahead to [...]

When I travel, I don’t do so seeking out on thing in particular. I don’t try to visit beaches, or seek out wildlife destinations, or only visit cultural destinations. I try to visit as wide a cross-section of this world as I can. However, I have to admit, there is rarely a wildlife viewing opportunity [...]

A while back, I wrote an article on my journey to Sierra Leone via moto from Guinea.  And as I sit here in Mali on Day 90 of my video project “It’s my Life 365″ I’m finally getting a little bit caught up.  Officially, this is the 41st day of my attempt to film at [...]

Through the first couple weeks of my trip across West Africa I really started to get the feeling that I was doing too much moving and not enough travelling.  I felt like I was spending too much time in buses and taxis, and not enough time exploring.  Thus, getting out and exploring the Fouta Djallon [...]

I’ve been holed up on the beach in Cote d’Ivoire for the past week putting the final touches on the latest issue of my travel magazine Vagabundo Magazine.  Believe me, there are worse places to be stuck working than the beach here in Grand Bassam.  I literally hear the ocean rolling away as I type, [...]

I just realized today that I haven’t gotten a video of the week up in the past little while. Lucky for me, today I really don’t feel like doing anything, and editing all the articles I have written just doesn’t seem like a whole lot of fun. Speaking of things that weren’t fun, I give [...]

I’ve been trying in vain to get some more of these videos up.  However, the lack of good internet in West Africa so far has been killing it.  The truth is that my “It’s My Life 365″ series is already on day 37 now, but I’ve only just now gotten day 15 uploaded to YouTube, [...]