November 16 2025 - Climbing Out of Freetown: A Stormy Start and a Steep Escape

📍 Location

Freetown → Bo, Sierra Leone

📝 Episode Notes

November 16th started with take two of this recording because take one was drowned out by torrential rain, thunder, and lightning. My goal for the day was to leave Freetown—if the weather and circumstances allowed.

Before heading out, I stopped by a supermarket that had been involved in a fraudulent charge on my card two days earlier. I felt it was important to let them know they were being targeted, and they planned to follow up with the car shop where I’d been when it happened.

Next, I met up with Merrill and Maxwell, two Peace Corps volunteers I had gotten to know in Makeni. They were traveling into Freetown along with the rest of their cohort after spending three months in their assigned villages. It was great to see them a ...