10/4

So we woke up around 8ish from the regional house and hung out with everyone for a while. We manage to get Mamadou to drive us all out to our sites even though we'll have to bike back in. Before we head out we walk up the street to a boutique to get some breakfast which consisted of bread and chocolate. Kevin and I just got the bread and butter as we were going to put the left overs from the night before into the bread to make a sandwich. It was really tasty, and after wards, Shelia, Steve and Hayes and Lindsey took off for their sites in the cruiser.
Kevin and I were waiting for them to get back and then we'd head out to Steve Woods site @ Togué. While we were waiting, Steve took us into the market to have a look around and show us Kadougou a little bit. It was neat walking around and actually hearing pulla futa spoken. The town was really cool not as big as Pout about half the size but better i think. Being here next to the mts, makes it really cool and it just has a good vibe to it. So after walking around the market a bit we went back to the regional house to wait for the land cruiser to get back. When it did we reloaded the bikes and our bags back on board to head off to Togué. Roxy came with us as she lives right up the road form steve and she was delivering a huge package of mosquito nets to a local health center and wanted to use the car for that.
Because it had rained for the past 4 days before our arrival the normal route that we were supposed to take was un-passable due to the ferry being washed out. So we had to go the long way on a back road that was even worse then the ones we came down on. The only thing i could think of while on this ride was Camel Trophy racing for land rover. We had a video of it when i was little of somewhere in South America and they raced across Brazil or something on just awful roads through huge puddles of mud and steep rock faced grades. I feel like our land cruiser took part in the Camel Trophy lite racing. Still badass though. We drop off Roxy and her mosquito nets in Dimli and then head back to Togué.
Togué is a neat little town of about 100 people who all farm peanuts, corn, or funion (spelling?). Steves host father is the chief of the village and a very funny older man. Steve speaks awesome pula futa. Hes like a local basically. we went over to his counterparts hut and hung out for a little bit to introduce ourselves and then had dinner at the chiefs hut. We had the rice that steve had bought for his family. rice with oil never tasted so good. Hungry dogs eat dirty dinners or something. We really didnt do a whole lot in the village today as we had just gotten there in the evening and we were quite beat. We kinda laid out a plan for the three days we were going to spend in the area and settled on going to a waterfall at the village kevin was going to be placed at tomorrow and then hanging out and checking out the fields of Togué the day after and then heading back on wed morning so as to be back for thrurs morning when we had to head back to cees.