Image: Ask the pilot: If I\'ve flown into the Port-au-Prince airport, does that mean I\'ve been to Haiti? What, exactly, constitutes a trip to another country?
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Ask the pilot: If I\'ve flown into the Port-au-Prince airport, does that mean I\'ve been to Haiti? …

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1999

"Sorry, it's too dangerous," says the driver.

To the best of my knowledge and experience, Port-au-Prince is the only place in the world this side of Baghdad where a cabbie will refuse a $20 bill to take a pilot into town for a quick, drive-through tour. Where else? Maybe Monrovia, Liberia, or Freetown, Sierra Leone, during the wars in those countries.

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