Rainy season - the quintessential equatorial African experience, with moody skies, billowing thunderheads and sheets of rain that soak you t...

Our first weekend in Bamako and we are being kept to a busy schedule! From 9am to 7pm Gie and I are on the road, with trusty Abou behind the...

Our first day in Mali, we arrived mid afternoon after 23+ hours of flight time. I felt such relief seeing the red dirt with cinderblock hous...

Well, hello again! I'm "dusting off" this blog for another adventure of a lifetime. Next week, Gie and I are headed to Mali, W...

[I originally wrote this post in September 2015 and kept it private. I am posting now for your review]. The first thing you always notic...

Moments of clarity.  It's two girls sprawled over a fluffy green  comforter in a sunlit upstairs bedroom , discussing C.S. Lewis and T...

My fingers carefully ply the leather straps, cinching up the girth inch by inch, making sure the saddle pad stays smooth and flat against ...