Yesterday, August 27, Itchy Boots announced that she was finishing her West Africa adventure - for now - due to three reasons so I wanted to record the episodes from Season 7 since I last wrote about them. In my last post about this season, I went from February 15 through June 21 videos. Here are the rest.
June 28
We watched episode 43 which was in Sierra Leone
July 2, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23, 26, 30
We watched episodes 44-52 which were in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast
In Sierra Leone, I enjoyed the episode on blood diamonds. When Noraly got to Liberia, the main road was so deep in mud that huge trucks were stuck there for weeks. A local guy rode Alaska through some of the mud, but the process was so tough that it burned her clutch plates so she was unable to change gears. She tried to make it to a new town, but Alaska was having none of it so a nice guy named Prince towed her bike with his own smaller bike (ep. 50). Soon after Noraly had her bike towed to the border with Ivory Coast, and then loaded her motorcycle on a truck to be taken to Abidjan where mechanics worked on Alaska's issues. Riding in Africa was tough on her bike! Sadly, Noraly didn't explore Ivory Coast much due to these issues so I was a bit disappointed in that. Also, she had a bad experience with an official there demanding bribes.
August 3, 7, 10, 13, 18, 20, 23, 27
We watched episodes 53-60 which were in the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin
I really enjoyed seeing Ghana as I have friends who have lived in this country. There we saw a stilt village, tree bridges, gold mines, a lake, and lovely mountain views! In creepier news, she was called Sweet Angel by a boat captain who then talked about his wife. She did an episode about scarification, meeting a king in Benin (she took him some whiskey and had to bow many many times). The final episode included a local showing her their palm oil production and a lady making pots to sell at the market. Then, of course, she told us why she was taking a break from West Africa.
1. She needs to get her visa for Nigeria, the next country, which is tougher to get for some reason. She thought she would have an easier time in Europe.
2. The rains had become heavier and she needed to wait until some of that was over as the roads were tough when they became muddy.
3. Health reasons: she is taking anti-malaria medicine that isn't good to take for long periods of time.
She said she had some other adventures planned so the channel should have some content so we'll see about that.
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