Is this real life?

The Tour d'Afrique (12 years later) + Vietnam + life as a writer

Whenever mid-January rolls around, I can’t help but transport myself back to January 2012 in Egypt, where I was at the starting line of the Tour d’Afrique. It feels like a lifetime ago, and yet, because we’ve now been living in Asia (first Japan, then Thailand, now Vietnam) for over 4 months, the experience feels more alive in me than it did the last fe…