I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 640. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about some lesser known

places like the DiBlisi Mountains, Fada, Injimena, and lesser known events like the Toyota War as we go to the country of

Chad.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen and let's talk

about Chad. I'd like to welcome back to the show Francis Tappon from wander learn.com

who's come to talk to us about Chad.

Francis welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much Chris. It's an honor to be back.

And we're actually talking from the same state now. You are

back from Africa after five years? That's right. About five and a half if you want to be technical.

Five and a half. The original to be technical. Five and a half, okay.

The original plan was three years, as I recall?

Yeah, you know, exactly right.

It was going to be a three-year trip,

and then I extended it to four after about a month,

and then all of a sudden after about a month and then all

sudden after about another year then I said you know I'm going to need five.

So that's just a way travel sometimes work for long distance travel.

And I was thinking myself I should just tell people I'm just out for five years.

You know it's a five year journey but then I think

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