November 3 2025 - The Visa Chase: A Day of Detours in Guinea

📍 Location

Conakry, Guinea

📝 Episode Notes

Today turned into one of those travel days where nothing works the way it should, yet everything somehow works out anyway. I started the morning with the usual hotel breakfast—simple sandwich, egg, and coffee—and set out on what I thought would be a straightforward mission: getting my visa for Sierra Leone.

Right away, the address for the embassy was wrong. After wandering around and getting help from a policeman-in-training who rode with me across town, I finally reached the right location. Inside, I met two Swiss cousins, Michael and Freddy, who were trying to do the same thing. But we were all turned down because our Guinea visas were just paper slips, not stickers in our passports. The only way to fix it? Go to the airport—d ...