MALI EXCURSION

Tomorrow at 730 AM, I am leaving for a 2 week trip through Ghana and Burkina Faso into Mali. Our ultimate destination is Timbucktu but there is little planning done so we will see if we make it. No transportation figured out, no hotels booked, no nothing. I never was so good at planning. Ideally, we will bus up to Mopti and then take a boat on the Niger river to Timbucktu where we can ride camels in the Sahara Desert. Hopefully, this will all work out and I won't end up living on the side of the road somewhere in Ghana. Interesting points about this trip besides the zero planning: 1- It is 114 degrees Fahrenheit right now in Mali. 2- I can only bring one small LL Bean backpack with like 2 changes of clothes. 3- I probably can't shower so much... 4- I am missing a lot of class. I have no cell phone service and most likely no internet either. So I will be back in like 2 weeks... Unless I decide to stay forever...