by phil | Dec 29, 2017 | Casamance, Gambia, Senegal, Stories
When I left off, we had just put the clients on the bikes. After tooling around the campement and getting comfortable on the bikes, we rode through a few sandy streets before arriving at a small shawarma shack. After an unexpectedly delicious lunch of chicken...
by phil | Dec 27, 2017 | Casamance, Gambia, Senegal, Stories
Earlier this year, Matt and I went on a scooter safari around West Africa. We knew we would enjoy the trip, but we needed to see if the logistics would be manageable with clients. Four thousand kilometers later, we knew we had something. Now we just needed to find...
by phil | Dec 20, 2017 | Stories
This post is going to be thin on words. I’m in the hole at least 3 blog posts, and I have a lot I want to say about scooter trips, including an upcoming February trip to Bissau. So “Bintou and Dre do America” is going to be very visual. And by visual...
by phil | Sep 19, 2017 | Stories
I saw this picture while reading Boubacar Sangaré’s moving tribute to Boukary. I remember when I first saw the image on Boukary’s blog, Quand le Village se Reveille. It is the perfect picture of him, at peace in the village, learning and discovering things...
by phil | Sep 12, 2017 | Stories
First off, thank you to everyone that shared and contributed to the fundraiser to get Boukary to Tunis. Unfortunately, the tumor on his liver was more complex than what was revealed by the original scan in Bamako, and they were unable to operate. This was devastating...
by phil | Aug 25, 2017 | Stories
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you have probably heard me talk about Boukary Konate. I first met him in 2011 after communicating with him online for a number of months. We ate 50 cent brochettes in Bistro Bafing and talked about Bamanankan, the...
