It is always interesting to return to a place you have been before. Knowing exactly where to go and to do it with purpose always confuses the hangers on. Killing time now 14.5hours to go. Then back to North America. and sometime in New York City. [View Full Entry]

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Ok so again I lose everything I wrote... What I really want when using all these computer labs is a nonfrench keyboard that doesnt have keys that stick down but also keys that can be pushed down. Anyways got Ouaga dealt with the normal tourist tricks bullshit that I am really getting tired of. The hotel you want to go to is always full but they know one (the taxi driver) which is cheap and not full. Anyways you make them go to the full hotel and suprise it isnt full. Then you have to deal with the hotel staff that [View Full Entry]

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The title says it all lots of kilometers done on a 110cc moped lots of fun a few problems with the bike but other than that I am just really tired. Saw a lot of monkeys. Went for a boat ride on a lake. Ate a delicious meal in Banfora. Almost got in trouble with the police because I didnt have ownership papers but I think my lack of french saved me. Got sunburnt even though there were lots of clouds and rain (I always forget sunburn is possible when cloudy) now i am exhausted. Tomorrow to Ouagadougou to figure out [View Full Entry]

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So I arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso last night thanks to a Dutch Father and Daughter. They drove me from Djenne. No public transport necessary! Everything is greener here. Which also means lots more fruit and vegetables. That makes me happy! Ok an update: What doesnt make me happy is the guy i was supposed to rent my motorbike from didnt show up this morning and i turned down all the other people who offered and so now i am spending the day kind of bored in the city. It is hard to get excited about the city when you are supposed to [View Full Entry]

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So I took a boat to Timbuktu. Not alot happened! We got into the boat fought for our places, almost won a very large section and then lost half of it but only because we decided being jerks to a nice Spanish couple wasnt the best way to start a 3 day boat trip. Good decision, they ended up being really nice people. There were also 3 Catalonians and a hand full of French people AND lots of locals. Look at the picture; we looked like that. Saw lots of hippos and birds as well as numerous villages of wide varieties. [View Full Entry]

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Roughly what is in my journal July 29 Road To Mopti Wow, met up with Maarte. Saw him walk by my restaurant shortly after writing my last joural entry. We went to the National Museum in Bamako but not inside because the ticket guy wouldnt give us change. I showed him the markets and in general just did some catching up. He was sick also ad had only started to recover. I feel almost completely recovered and decided to head to Mopti this morning. When I am there I will decide what to do next. I got to the bus station [View Full Entry]

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tourism in Mali, this is a good and bad thing. I have had a long break from this thing for multiple reasons. The main one being I have been very busy. I spent 4 days hiking in Dogon Country, which was amazing, could be heaven on earth. Also spent two days on a crappy bus for what was supposed to be a 7 hour bus ride. And today I spent all day in Djenne where the world famous Great Mosque (made of mud) is. Soon I get busy again but I have decided that tomorrow will be a big blog update [View Full Entry]

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Hello from Bamako Wow was it ever pleasent and hellish to get here. No good direct transport through Guinea so I had to hop bush taxis. First one was really easy: Conakry to Mamou. Only real stories from this are the asshole cops who want bribes threaten me with arrest for holding someone elses passport (they said i didnt look like my picture); and there were lots of police check points too. The same day I cought another taxi from Mamou to some village in the middle of nowhere. There I had to compete with the attention of a polite and [View Full Entry]

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Looks like I will be here another night because my VISA for Mali won't be done until the afternoon. I guess that is ok, it might be worth it to walk around the city a bit feeling healthy for the first time. It poured rain last night, like, really really hard rain. The most rain I have ever heard or seen before. I had a really delicious meal of fish and pasta for dinner before wandering around the streets aimlessly looking for something to do. I found nothing which I guess shouldn't be too surprising. The only thing to do here [View Full Entry]

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In Conakry , So, I went back to Senegal. Had my VISA card retained in Ziguinchor. Crossed into Guinea-Bissau and spent the night on the floor of a friend's (from the bus) house for free. Got into the city center the next day and enjoyed myself as much as possible. Would have had to wait until friday to go to the Bijao Islands (which was my plan) so decided it would be better to just continue on (Guinea-Bissau is way too expensive to stay more than a couple days) Got to the border with Guinea no problem, but then I made [View Full Entry]

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