Archive for November, 2005
Friday, November 25th, 2005
Going Home (to Dakar, that is)
We took a sept place home to Dakar. It was Thanksgiving Day, a fact which had escaped us until a Senegalese who works with Americans pointed it out to us later that evening. Abraham and I bought the whole back seat to ourselves — three “places” — so that we wouldn’t have to spend 4-5 [...]
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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Road Trip!
I love those words. Road trip. The time has come for us to take our own road trips here in Senegal. Tomorrow (Sunday) we take an express bus up to St. Louis (pronounced the French way, of course), in northern Senegal near the border with Mauritania. St. Louis is the most important city in northern [...]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Toubab Dialao
To all my Northeastern family and friends who are braving today’s cold front (hey, it’s November, the warmth couldn’t last), and to my pals in the parched deserts of the Southwest, I send you these images from one of our favorite places (so far) in Senegal. The village is Toubab Dialao (pronounced too-bob jallow), and [...]
