The prompt: June: Historical, Cultural, Personal Memories Eternal summer. Who doesn’t want 70 degrees 7 days a week? That’s what they say in San Diego. And wasn’t life sunshine. The money flowed. The boyfriend had…
Posts tagged 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…
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…
reading and misreading the languages between
…continued bush taxi adventure in Senegal A “sept place” taxi is called, “seven places” for the most obvious reason: it has seven seats for passengers; two rows in the back seating three to each and…
naked white
a brave minority I climb off his motorbike at the taxi station and Mbouille shows me the palm of his hand; “Stay here. If they see a white person, they will raise the price.”…
bush taxi, part i: pride in a name
(Playing Part in the Diallo Family) Portland, Oregon The fact that our food is thirty minutes tardy is hardly given a wink of conscious thought; our mouths full, with the gossip that spans the…