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

in my passport photo

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Amateur Traveler episode 785. Today the Amateur Traveler takes a detour to a less

traveled country as we talk about beaches and waterfalls and voodoo as we go to the country of Togo in West Africa.

I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today.

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

I'd like to welcome the show Philip Mooters, who has come to talk to us about Togo.

Philip's website is Jernication.com and there's a link to that in the show

notes in case you have trouble with the pronunciation but it's like journalism and vacation

milled it together. If you go to Philip's site you can read it in both German and in English.

Philip welcome to the show.

Hi Chris, thanks to the show.

Hi Chris, thanks for having me.

And obviously the reason why you can read it in Germany is that Philip is from Germany

and actually coming to us from there now.

But you're coming to talk about Togo.

What's your connection with Togo?

I was traveling, backpacking actually in Togo,

more or less exactly two years ago.

So end of 2016 before the pandemic hit us all.

I was backpacking in this special region of the world.

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