Greetings from Timbucktu!
Yes it is a real place and somehow I made it here. I just landed after a two day ride on a boat up the Niger River.
It is my first time here in the Sahara, I have met some nice people who just arrived on a traditional salt caravan.
Only French is spoken here, but some speak a little English; so i get by (with a little help from some French Friends).
things have gotten a lot better since a low point on christmas eve; mostly because I was sick.
Now i plan to relax and explore since i found a nice family to stay with;
hard to type on this French keyboard, so thats all for now.
Merry christmas to everyone; i wanted to call but could not
love, Forest
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Glad to hear you are past the low point and well on to enjoying Timbuktu - who would have thunk it. Great that you found some nice folks - relax and enjoy for awhile and take lots of pics and explore lots, especially the people. Hugs, Jane
Hey Forest,
Thanks for sending me the link to your blog......I just read it to my Father.....it's really great...you paint a wonderful picture of life in West Africa.
I'm sending the link to Fred, Mary and Kate Jamison.
Kate's leaving in a couple days for your school there in Ghana...you'll have a new friend!
Anyway take care..your obviously having a great experience. Glad u could introduce Thomas to a little bit of it
Big Tom
That travellers D destroyed all of us one by one... it got kevin on the way back to accra. Longest bus ride of my life
But how was burkina faso? Did you just rip through it? Oh, and i still refuse to believe thqt ti,buktu exists...
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