38 Things for 38 Years

These kinds of posts used to be popular back in the youth of my blog so I will give it a go and see if that is still the case. They are also easier to write because they can be completely incoherent. I'm supposed to now say something like number 8 really surprised me...

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Mali on the verge of liberating Africa?

Do I want to wade into these waters? Not really. I have relatively flimsy toubab-in-Mali credentials to be talking about pan-Africanist critiques of the neocolonial order. But maybe someone can help me see something that I'm missing. By now you may have heard the...

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Do you believe?

I don't know how to articulate this thing that happened. My original email to the person in question may be enough. Hopefully it's comprehensible: It's pretty insane and probably not believable, but I will tell you what happened. The other day I was thinking about...

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Adventure as an art form

"TIA" - this is Africa. Seasoned travelers, country counters and a certain class of expats adore this phrase. I regret to say that I may have used it at one point in my life. Thankfully I have suppressed those memories long enough to not know when that was. You are...

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Senegal on shaky ground?

It's not lost on me that we left Mali because of all the question marks around the political and security situation and we are now getting phone calls from friends in Mali asking if we are OK over here in Senegal. We are indeed ok. In the village of Somone, you...

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Dakar to Cape Town on two not-so-fast wheels

We have long advertised an ambitious 10-week - now 3-month - trip from Dakar to Cape Town on our website. Matt did the trip himself in 2018 and we were all set to have our first clients in 2020. You know the rest of that story. Since then, we didn't do much to promote...

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Manifesting Monday

It's not Monday and I'm not sure I believe in the law of attraction, but I do believe it would be bad juju to house this short-form content, otherwise well suited for social media, chez Zuckerberg and Elon. So I am putting it on my blog. I am going to Mbour to find...

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A typical day for me in Senegal

There is no typical day. We are still trying to figure our lives out over here. But that's not what you came for. We enjoy hearing about other people's routines and "typical days." We can read these with envy but they can also be validating if the person is following...

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Scoot West Africa

Want to travel with me in West Africa? A friend and I run scooter trips in the region. scootwestafrica.com.

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