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Worst Case Abroad: Arrested in Africa
The first installment in a series of personal travel memoirs, recounting the worst case scenarios I have experienced around the globe.
Every day, millions of people around the world travel internationally.
Many will do so without experiencing anything worse than a minor inconvenience — perhaps a delayed flight or a lost bag.
But what about when s**t hits the fan? What about those ‘worst case scenarios’, the ones that can never quite be predicted, blindsiding you and leaving you defenseless in a foreign land?
I am fortunate to have travelled to some of the most fascinating and unique destinations in the world, creating adventures everywhere I went. Along the way, however, I lived through multiple worst case scenarios, in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Tanzania and Latvia. To collect these stories in one place and to share my misfortunes with the world, I have decided to start a series on Medium. For the first memoir, I have decided to recount my experience of getting arrested in Zanzibar, Tanzania this past June.
