Where is Libby now? part 2

Hello again from the fiancé! Libby left Tuesday morning for a day and half bus trip to start her second village-stay. Before heading to villages, the SIT group will stop and be temporarily based in Kédougou. Where is Kédougou? you may ask. Well, check out these satellite images, courtesy of Google Earth:


as always, you may click the picture to see it full-size.

Let me explain this just a little bit. Kédougou is in the southeast corner of the country. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the white stuff clouding the view of the ground are, well, clouds. If you look closely, there is a white line parallel to the straight line distance between Dakar and Kédougou. The distance between the cities is about 620 km or 385 miles. The line is also about that distance, which I discovered about the distance of Denver to Salt Lake City. Too bad for Libby, she didn't sound like she would have the comfort of roads as smooth as I-70...

This second image is just for fun. For those that didn't know, Timbuktu is a real place; it is a city in Mali. It is visible on this map showing Dakar, Kédougou and Timbuktu and a number of other countries nearby:



In case you are interested, the distance from where Libby is to Timbuktu is about 1090km or 675 miles. That's about the distance from Denver to Dallas. Not that close, I know, but closer than most of us will ever get, I imagine.

So that is about where Libby is. Cool, n'est-ce pas? She mentioned she may make it back to Dakar in time for All Saint's Day (Nov 01), or in Senegal, (la fête) de la Toussaint. While it is a primarily Muslim country, there is enough holdover in the culture from French colonialism and the resulting Catholic faith that La Toussaint is still a holiday. Not a bad deal eh?

Keep her in your prayers. I, like you, can't wait to hear her stories!

À bientôt!