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Break-in

Dawn was heavy and grey. I awoke to find everyone asleep around me and climbed up to the roof for some air. The American embassy was having an evacuation drill, a taped voice ordering everyone to stay away from the windows. Doves cooed in the trees, and I heard squeaking and wailing from...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 18, 2007 from Dosso, Niger
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Hunger

Sahelian Niger experienced food shortages as recently as 2 years ago, and I looked to World Hunger, Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins and Peter Rosset (Grove Press, 1998) for some understanding of the issue. I learned the following surprising facts: 1. Food is abundant. 78%...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 18, 2007 from Dosso, Niger
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Food

This blog may inadvertently have conveyed the impression that food only instigates diarrhea, and that would be a tragic miscommunication. Bacteria cause diarrhea, not food. Remember that. I have had memorable meals in my life, some simple and some grand: a blowfish we caught and cooked off...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 18, 2007 from Dosso, Niger
from the travel blog: Harmattan

Utopia

When I awoke it was to a sideways view of a bustling street filled with small stands and street vendors and truck drivers. Nassirou waited for his patron to arrive (“I drove all night to get here on time, and he’s still sleeping with the cell phone off”!), and I went to a bike shop with my bike...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 15, 2007 from Dosso, Niger
from the travel blog: Harmattan

All-nighter with Nassirou

I was sitting there by the side of the road considering how I might cut down the height of the nubs on this fat tire so that my wheel would fit, when all that gris-gris I bought in Agadez kicked in and a very big, very empty, lots of room for the bike Orange truck pulled up, the first in a...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on February 10, 2007 from Dosso, Niger
from the travel blog: Harmattan

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