[Photo from my ill-fated river trip up the Niger river towards Timbuktu.]
Cynthia Barnes writes about her own journey to Timbuktu on Slate today: "My family travels differently. We are not Peace Corps, Fulbright, junior-year-abroad people. A few of us made the Delta-to-Detroit migration, becoming steelworkers instead of sharecroppers. We go overseas with dog tags instead of passports. Our souvenirs are not the kind you want to show. Syphilis. Suicidal tendencies. "That is a lie," my mother will tell you. "That boy just fell." |
The slow boat to a "hustler's hellhole"
August 4, 2005
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
[ photoblogring | Join | Random | List
]