Breakfast at Jamm was a wonderful way to start the day. There was choice of grapefruit or bissop (hibiscus) juice followed by a fresh baguette with butter and several kinds of Jam (bissop and mango), a made-to-order egg, and fresh coffee. Yves joined me and the other guests for breakfast which was prepared by Rosemary. I set out to explore Saint Louis. The guesthouse was located a few blocks north of the center and main area of the island. So I set out to the ...

Sunday, February 23, 2014 The joy of the previous night out was short-lived for me. I got sick during the night, sudden, fortunately relatively short-lived, but draining. So this morning, I did not feel (of apparently look) very good. The last visit to the buffet breakfast at the Radisson provided me with a pot of tea, some bananas and yoghurt, and a piece of bread. I had taken some Imodium and Tylenol and had a lot of water with me and was hoping for the best...

Saturday, February 22, 2014 The morning started earlier than planned so we could do the drive around Dakar that we had missed due to the airplane fiasco. We set off at 8 AM along the Corniche, the road the hotel was on and that paralleled the beach, passing the Magic Kingdom Amusement Park, the Supreme Court building, a small area with stone sculptures, Dakar's main jogging route and its own version of muscle beach. This was the first trip into the downtown cent...

Friday, February 20 The Radisson Blu's breakfast buffet was a very fine way to start the day: omelet bar, granola, assorted cheeses, breads, sweet rolls, fresh fruit, bissop, orange, and grapefruit juice, and hot coffee. Fully sated, we gathered for our bus ride to Thies, about 6o kilometers from Dakar. To get there we had to drive through Dakar which is built on a large peninsula with the hotel at one end and the road out of he city on the other side and oth...

Thursday, February 20 Our day started after breakfast with a study and discussion session, "How Do I Make Sense of the Poverty I see in Senegal?" at the hotel. As Americans with money to travel, this question is a difficult one not only here but in other developing nations. We shared feelings and observations; I shared that making personal connections however small which may in some way improve another's lot is one way to make some sense and how good I felt maki...