Now I pulled this same idiot move in Guatemala when I spent a day working at a coffee finca and was baffled by the red and green candy-colored skins masking my coffee-shop bean incognito. Again,…
Browsing Category senegal
senegal circling
An anthem by birds replaces that of the night bugs as sun floods my room and scrambles my eyes and ears to snappy attention. The walls of my world spin only for a moment before…
sweating, seeping, Senegal
No peanuts are served on my flight from Paris to Dakar. But as I pull down the seat tray and flip open (for the first time) my Lonely Planet Senegal, I learn that in addition…
swallowing shame
Nothing strikes me as particularly interesting or memorable about the US embassy in Dakar. It’s a formidable building, with the same broad shoulders of those that neighbor it, identified by a simple gold plaque on…
getting to the period
getting to the period Africa is a guru, of whom any and every encounter provides another opportunity to master grace in the practice of patience. And just as my lids close down and wipe clean…
further more
(Sorry; been busy crossing borders!) I’ll be back with another (final?) chapter on my bush taxi trip in Senegal soon, but if you’re eager to move forward with another story of African adventure, the following…
if it be the will
if it be the will “Just pulled into Tamba. Don’t worry about me okay?” I type in and send the text message to Mbouille on the cell phone that he insisted I buy. By…
toubab umpaloompas
It only takes one cross-country trip on local transportation in a developing country to learn that in addition to visiting a restroom before departure, it is equally essential to avoid all intakes of fluids and…
stomach aches
holes Our seventh passenger halfway arrives. He isn’t actually going where we are going, but his destination is along the way and if we’ll chip in, he’ll pay a little extra and we’ll all…