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Updates From Tayloe

November 22nd, 2006 at 11:00 am | posted by Virginia Simmons


Tayloe Emery of DATA continues to send us updates on his travels in Timbuktu during the taping of Running The Sahara.


“It’s 2am here in Timbuktu and I can’t sleep. I’ve just walked out a ways from our camp into the sand of the Sahara. The stars above are magnificent and radiate throughout the valley, shooting across the sky and seemingly falling into the big muddy Niger River not 10 km away.


Mali may be the 3rd poorest country in the world but it is the wealthiest too. Its treasure are its people and they are bound to you through a mutual fascination of cultures. A fabric of ancient mysticism clothes and warms its masses. I think about Omar and Mohammed my new friends here in Timbuktu and the nomadic lives they lead wandering through the desert with their families stopping from time to time in this city to conduct trade and seek out fresh water for their animals.


Could my new friends have any concept of my life in the United States? Probably not. Though film and TV are occasionally watched here it only takes a second to realize that the concept of make-believe is a stretch to most people here. I was asked repeatedly today if I knew Jack Bauer (24), and if he was as good a man as he appears to be on the TV, and did I think he was America’s greatest hero.


I drank tea at sunset with my new Tuareg friends and thought about my new baby son at home with his mother in North Carolina preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving. A turkey from Food Lion seems like the last thing I want right now. Instead, I wish my wife and son were here to witness this great culture, this enticing land and to feel like I do - a stranger in a strange land surrounded by new friends and experiences.


Africa is probably not what most Americans will think about this Thanksgiving as they heap on the mashed potatoes and yams, but maybe someone out there will read this and think about me out here in the Sahara Desert: happy, sad, alone and engrossed by a civilization that has changed very little in thousands of years and continues to shine like the bright Tuareg star that leads north to the salt mines and then home again. Home. What a concept.


JTE”

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