Now that school is out, Radhika and I decided to take a trip to Oursi, a village in the Sahel region in northern Burkina Faso. This would be the place we tried to go last summer, when we caught a ride on top of a truck and then got stranded in the middle of the desert overnight because the road was flooded out. This time we brought bikes so we wouldn’t have to rely on slow, rickety trucks for transport. We took a bus from Ouaga to Dori in the morning then hid from the sun for a few hours, ready to bike the 57 km to Gorom-Gorom in the afternoon. We sipped cold water at a small restaurant with PCV Jeremy. The day was especially hot, with that stagnant humidity that usually means it’s going
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