anna @ April 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It’s comically humbling when the simplest life tasks leave you dumbfounded and useless, and in our case, a little hungry. We found a home, a beautiful apartment overlooking Lake Victoria. We are free from the perma-drunk backpackers of the guesthouses, the late night dance beats keeping us awake, and shared bathrooms. Now we can set [...]
jon @ April 13, 2007 # No Comment Yet
>What does it feel like to hold a machete? It feels amazing. Like you can conquer the world. It is our first day in the Kibale National Forest. We’re hot and dirty. But we want to keep going. We venture deep into the bush, past subsistence farmers, baboons, and banana groves. The villagers here, if [...]
jon @ April 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Sunday, April 8, 2007 KAMPALA – Uganda is only a seven-hour flight from London, but in many respects, it is light years away from the United Kingdom despite its colonial connection, the BBC world service, and the country’s obsession with soccer. It sits on the edge of Lake Victoria in East Africa, surrounded by Rwanda [...]
anna @ March 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
After our first experience on something called EASYJET, the UK’s low cost, no-frills airline, we arrived in Glasgow and were welcomed into the cozy home of Jon’s brother, Jeremy Jones. We celebrated our birthdays at the Strathfillan Wigwam Village, a British camping gimmick–heated cabins situated on a pristine landscape. The place was run by a [...]
jon @ March 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It is not raining here, just north of Glasgow, 5,000 miles away from San Francisco, where the Battle of Scotland is very much alive. We found SNP nationalists canvassing at Luss, a wee town on Loch Lomond, with banners that read, “independence: you know it makes sense.” By 2010, Scottish nationalists want a referendum on [...]
anna @ January 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
What We’re About As large news organizations become more cost-conscious, we believe there is a need to find cheaper solutions to maintain high quality and reliable foreign coverage. Backpackjournalist.org is a collaborative international professional reporting project by journalists, Anna Sussman and Jonathan Jones, intended to generate stories of global interest from countries in the African [...]