Chapter photos from Crocodile Love, my new travel memoir
byThese photographs from our trip through Pakistan, India, Ghana, The Gambia serve as the chapter openers to CROCODILE LOVE: Travel tales from an Extended Honeymoon.
The Gambia
Sara Kunda homecoming
byChapter Thirty-two: Sara Kunda homecoming Sara Kunda is a north bank village, located not quite halfway up the Gambia River. Sutay had been taken in…
The Gambia from Space
byJust stumbled across this great NASA image of The Gambia River, or as Kunta Kinte remembered it, the “Kamby Bolongo.” Here’s the Wiki page…
Going to The Gambia?
byThe most thorough and up-to-date guidebook that I’ve seen is The Bradt Guide to The Gambia by Craig Emms, Linda Barnett & Richard Human…
Crocodile Love
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What do you do with one day to kill in The Gambia? That’s easy: If you’re a European sugar momma lookin’ for love, you go to the beaches around Senegambia and respond to shouts of “Hey Boss Lady!” from glistening Gambian studs, a.k.a. “Bumsters.”
Sara Kunda to Kombo: Traveling in The Gambia
byThe journey from Sara Kunda to Kombo, as the area around The Gambia’s capital is known, allows us to experience nearly every challenge encountered…
Sara Kunda: A Gambian Homecoming Part II
byTay’s Toma is little Sutay, the child she helped pull from her friend and sister, Fatou, 10 years ago on a fateful moonlit night….
Sara Kunda: A Gambian Homecoming Part I
byThe pre-dawn sky is as star-shiny night-black as it was when we crawled under our mosquito net a few hours ago, at the end…
The Gambia, Up the River
byOur first stop is Tendaba Training Camp, where we arrive after 10 pm, exhausted but excited as Tay runs into old friends and I…
Map: Where in the World is The Gambia?
byIt’s right here, a splinter of river and river bank surrounded on all sides by Senegal. The Gambia is a Mandinka island within a…