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…
Posts tagged taxis
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…
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…
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.”…