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Book; “Blood Meridian”
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Hey, I have had a big adventure the last few days so let me tell you all about it. I started on my adventure on the 28th of June. I had a nice back seat middle car ride to Daniel site in Tivauane. I stopped for a few hours and we watched the documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” (Cory and Aaron I think you will like this documentary. After that we headed on to a city a little south of Thies where we have a regional house. The plan was to go on down to Kolda and hang out with our friend who lives in a small village south of the Gambia. The problem is that once we called him the day before we were about to head to his site, we discovered that he was in Dakar with a bacterial infection, and possibly gout. I thought it was a dirty sailor disease gout, but apparently it’s a disease still around. Since we ran into this little problem, we decided we would just head onto Tamba and spend a few days down in the south before we headed to Kedagou. So it takes us 8 hours to go 200 k because the road is so bad. We still make it and are happy to just go to bed and call it a night. We wake up in the morning and decide to take it easy and watch movies then head down to Kedagou with a few other people the next day. We wake up ready to go but Daniel wasn’t moving. He caught some sort of bug and we ended up being grounded in Tamba for another two days. Everyone else went on ahead, but I figured I would stick around Tamba so Daniel wouldn’t get to lonely. Two days pass and we take the “4 hour” car ride down south. I use quote because 30 k out of Tamba our car hits a cow dead center then runs off into the tree. At this point everyone in the car is laughing and making fun of the driver. It seemed like he was aiming for the cow. We had to get out of the car and push it out of the ditch, then push start the car to get it going again. We finally get the car going again and the driver stops at the next village and sends for a new car for us. He says it is to dangerous to continue on in our car. So we are in a tiny village sitting next the town well for two hours till the replacement car comes. It is already 2 at this point and we hadn’t eaten. We load up the new car and get ready to go when the mechanic that came in the new car says, “Nothing is wrong with this car. Why didn’t you keep going?” So we unload the new car and reload the old car and continue on the way. The funny thing is that we stopped a k befor a small town with places to eat. Our driver was a dick. We were stuck in a village waiting for two hours when we could of went on or just gone another K to a decent town and eaten lunch. We continue on the road and go through the national park in the south. It was really neat, you have to go through this park to get to Kedagou. We saw wild boars, fawns, and a bunch of different monkeys. We finally get to the regional house in Kedagou and take it easy for the night. He next day we went on a 30 K bike ride to go to the waterfalls. It was awesome, the ride was off road over rocks, through water. At one point I had to carry my bike over my head, as I was armpit deep in water. We also go to bike through forest; jungle and we saw a bunch of chimps barking at us. We finally get to the river and go on an hour hike through the water to get to the waterfalls. On the hike we had to climb rocks go down a few vine ropes. We also go to swim in small pools in the river. After the long hike we get to this big waterfall. It is surrounded by rock walls. So you are in a cave almost with tree canopies covering the sky with vines hanging down. We climbed the rock wall and were jumping in 20 feet high down to the water below. It was neat, then the same day I rode my bike back 30 K and hung out the rest of the day. The next day was the 4th of July party. There was a piñata, fireworks, and music. A good time was had by all. We even had a water balloon fight which worked out nicely. We hung out for a few more days after then we went on back to Tamba to start the trek back home. When I got to Tamba I was starting to feel a little tired and figured it was normal with all of the festivities. But then I started to have some GI issues about every 30 min for 24 hours. I got pretty dehydrated, but I made sure I drank a lot of water and rested. So I was stuck in Tamba another few days until I was well enough to get out on the road again. When I was well enough to get back on the road, I ended up taking the back way home rather then going back through Thies. I took a six hour car ride back seat middle to Orassogi, then waited in that garage for 5 hours to get another car to Richard Toll. We finally left and the driver was terrible. HE drove so slow that it took him 6 hours to go a 4 hour distance. We had to stop so he could pray, then he changed a headlight in the car. Well, after 30 min, I decided to take over and do it. But After I didn’t it he took the light out and redid it himself. We continued on and it was dark, the driver was pulling off the road whenever a car passed us so I decided to get out of the in Ndioum and continue on the next day. The next day I got a car that took me two hours to get home, but it was safe, so I can’t complain. So yeah, I had an exciting few days. I hope Dagana can compete with all of my adventure. I know it will. Untill next time.