<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:41:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@beantownboy/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Hitchhiking on Airplanes in Somalia (Part 2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Part 1, I introduced the rather unique experience of hitchhiking on airplanes in Somalia. Part 2, however, is my very best (and true) experience of such hitchhiking. As in Part 1, this episode too was]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/hitchhiking-on-airplanes-in-somalia-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/hitchhiking-on-airplanes-in-somalia-part-2</guid><category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[beantownboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:27:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/j2mVGtSaxUkxyy4tkv8bhnTE2jVCFqAdQz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitchhiking in Somalia...on airplanes!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the early 90s, living in Kenya, I was working for an aggressive African merchant bank. You may recall the rather infamous “landing” of the US Marines on the shores of Somalia in 1993. Well, I thought]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/hitchhiking-in-somalia-on-airplanes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/hitchhiking-in-somalia-on-airplanes</guid><category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[beantownboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:14:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/j2mVGtSaxUkxyy4tkv8bi4QHVrkQASQmPt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climbing a mountain...in Tanzania]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mount Kilimanjaro--Tanzania At 19,000+ feet, Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest peak in Africa and the highest, free-standing mountain in the world (i.e., one that is not part of a mountain range). Climbing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/climbing-a-mountain-in-tanzania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/climbing-a-mountain-in-tanzania</guid><category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[beantownboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:28:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/j2mVGtSaxUkxyy4tkv8bgK48MjNuaV1V82?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beantownboy...Governance Advisor in Afghanistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I described how I found myself serving as a governance advisor to the Chairman of the Provincial Council of Ghazni Province in Afghanistan, instead of as the small business development]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/beantownboy-governance-advisor-in-afghanistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/beantownboy-governance-advisor-in-afghanistan</guid><category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[beantownboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:03:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/j2mVGtSaxUkxyy4tkv8bgzZrm1Na41tFpr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beantownboy…in Afghanistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2010, I was in a bad “place”. Had sold my business interests in Zambia (which was good), but was in court with a business partner in Kenya (which was not good). I was spending all my time managing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/beantownboy-in-afghanistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/adventure/@beantownboy/beantownboy-in-afghanistan</guid><category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[beantownboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/j2mVGtSaxUkxyy4tkv8bgKqG1cW47NdpDc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Real World Challenge for STEEMIT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electricity in Africa In my introductory post, I mentioned that one of my real interests regarding cryptocurrencies is the ability to access and utilize the same to help address real world problems. See]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/africa/@beantownboy/a-real-world-challenge-for-steemit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/africa/@beantownboy/a-real-world-challenge-for-steemit</guid><category><![CDATA[africa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[beantownboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:46:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/j2mVGtSaxUkxyy4tkv8bgwNVjCZ9JBoviz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beantownboy in Africa comes to STEEMIT]]></title><description><![CDATA[My introductory post. How to begin; the hardest part, right. I am sometimes referred to as an “American African”; why? Well, I moved to Africa (initially Kenya) in the mid-1980s and never left. 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