A French Christmas in the Desert
January 5th 2008
Shawn and I spent our Christmas in Burkina Faso -
We gave up our hopes of going to Timbuktu because of time constraints and settled on a place with an equally exotic sounding name. Ouagadougou (pronounced Wagga-doogoo) was our new Christmas Destination.
We noticed the difference as soon as we crossed the border. The French speaking immigration man joked with us as he chain smoked cigarett
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