Zach’s Travels

Saturday night I slept outside on the topmost point of the island, next to some old guns that the French left behind many years ago. Beautiful night. Great temperature with a nice breeze and a sky full of stars.
I was invited by Duchere, one of my closest and most helpful friends [...]

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So every day my lunch is made by a small, shuffling man named Opa. That’s really about all I can tell you about Opa because I don’t speak French and he doesn’t speak English. Our conversations typically follow along the lines of him saying something in French to which I respond by simply [...]

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“Just email it.”
“What time does this start?”
“I’ll just go out and buy an adapter cable.”
“You my friend - I give you good price.”
“It’s a gift.”
On another note, weekend starts in two hours. Currently downloading “Be Kind Rewind” on iTunes. At home such a download would take 20 minutes. Right now I’m [...]

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One of the things I have learned through travelling is that experience is the greatest teacher. Someone can tell you all they know about where to go, how to behave, and what to look for, but it is actually wandering into the city alone that really gives you a base of understanding. And [...]

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A sad, sad video introduction to my home in Senegal.

Bombara House from Zach Koch on Vimeo.

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Just to throw this out now - the internet here is very bad. When it works, it’s slow. When it doesn’t, well, it just doesn’t. The Goree Institute, the place I’m working, has wireless, but I can only get a connection some of the time, and even then it goes in and [...]

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Tired.  French keyboard. More later.

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So I have roughly 24 and 1/2 hours before my flight leaves Indianapolis tomorrow to JFK.  From JFK it’s a straight shot over to Dakar (capital of Senegal).  That gives me roughly 24 and 1/2 hours to pack and buy most of the necessary supplies.  I thought I was doing pretty well in terms of [...]

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Welcome to the new travel blog.  New server.  New theme.  New WordPress installation.  New Location.
Soon-to-be Living Location:  Goree Island, Senegal, Africa.
Departure Date:  June 8th
Things to do before leaving:  Lots
Longer post soon.  I swear.

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