| (2003-12-08) Tendaba I went to a VSO Conference this weekend. Four hour bus ride up, over bumpy dirt roads and potholed paved roads, it was stunning. When our bus had to stop and pull over so it wouldn’t overheat, children sensed that white folk were near, and ran from all sides. They stared at us. We gave them water.
I sat in the comforts of the air conditioning and took pictures of them.
We took a boat ride through the mangroves at dusk. We had hoped to see crocs and hippos, but we only saw birds.
We went past village after village, seeing hundreds of happy people (which I'll do an entry on at a later date), and I tried to capture a glimpse of life in the Up Country of The Gambia.
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