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I got home on Friday, 8 April, readers. I can report that Dakar’s Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is nowhere near as bad as I’d heard it was (if you want to see one sorry-ass ghetto-looking airport, try the one in Lomé), and that South African Airways has the most comfortable economy-class seating I’ve ever seen.

I’m really glad to be home. I had feared that I wouldn’t be ready to leave when the time finally came, but that didn’t happen at all. I was absolutely ready to come back home. I was gone for 391 days (one year and 26 days), and that was a little bit too long. It was a fantastic thirteen months (overall), but I had definitely had quite enough by the end of it.

Now it’s time to start sorting through my pictures and putting the best ones up on my Flickr page. I’ll put notices up here whenever I’ve uploaded a new batch. I’ve also got summaries to write, as well as writing a bit more about West Africa, so keep an eye on this blog if you’re interested.

UPDATE — The first two photosets are up:

“Anger Day” in Cairo (the best of the photos I got during the 25 January demonstration)

Mountain Gorillas (the only six usable gorilla photos I managed to get)

If you’re interested, you can keep an eye on my Flickr page to see more photos as they become available for public consumption.