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Mike Henry

When money isn’t real

June 30, 2021March 10, 2018 by Mike Henry

A road trip in Zimbabwe shows the see-saw balance between public confidence and the value of money playing out on the street.

Categories UncategorizedTags Zimbabwe

Photo Sadza: The Mists of Nyanga, Zimbabwe

July 7, 2021March 8, 2018 by Mike Henry

Road trip photos from Lusaka to the Nyanga Mountains, during a time of change in Zimbabwe

Categories PhotosTags Zimbabwe

A Meditation on MacGyver (and his cousin Jugaad)

June 30, 2021February 25, 2018 by Mike Henry

Not only a character or a word, but a concept, a guardian angle, a critical way of life to learn in the Real World

Categories Travel PhilosophyTags Zambia

The Rains of Mpongwe

June 14, 2021February 24, 2018 by Mike Henry

An ode to Zambia’s rainy season, and a story of four friends making their own fun in the middle of nowhere

Categories AdventureTags Zambia

Photo Nshima: On the road in Zambia

July 7, 2021February 7, 2018 by Mike Henry

Is there any better feeling than being on the road in Zambia, with the people this country has made into your best friends?

Categories PhotosTags Zambia

Making our own fun at Mulungushi

June 30, 2021January 21, 2018 by Mike Henry

Our trips aren’t tourist brochure material. And that’s how we like it.

Categories AdventureTags Zambia

BikeZungu 2017

April 8, 2021December 26, 2017 by Mike Henry

How a MacGyver’d bike and an inadequate rider barely made it to Lake Kariba

Categories UncategorizedTags Zambia

A Canadian Micro-Exploration: Algonquin to Kennisis by Canoe

July 3, 2021August 13, 2016 by Mike Henry

Solo exploration from Smoke Lake in Algonquin Park to Kennisis Lake in Haliburton, with an amazingly lucky ending

Categories AdventureTags Canada

Ruby Mountain High

April 21, 2021May 21, 2016 by Mike Henry

Snowcocks or Bust: a wild hunt for an elusive Himalayan bird in Nevada

Categories UncategorizedTags Birding, USA

Pieces of America: Surreal Alaskan Daze at the Sixmile Whitewater and Bluegrass Festival

June 10, 2021July 9, 2015 by Mike Henry

A free, unadvertised festival south of Anchorage offers hitchhiking in glorious dirtbag vans, inflatable races on fast whitewater, a Viking burial, and some damn good music

Categories AdventureTags USA
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