Our town

We don't actually live in Kayes proper. We live in a little town a few hours north of there. It is a dusty spot with lots of animals and not many trees. It tends toward the warm side. The folks in town are a bit more conservative than many other places in Mali. Sam often goes without a headwrap but that makes her the only woman in town without one. The men typically wear boubous, more so than in other places. That is by way of introduction for these pictures: Mark thinking "I can see Mauritania from here" and Sam with her counterpart walking down the main street of our town (young Luke Skywalker "bullseye"ing womp rats in his T-16 not pictured).