It was another first for us. We landed in Africa—a new continent. Granted, we had made a brief, one-night stop in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast a few days earlier, but for all intents and purposes that was still Spain. This was Casablanca, Morocco, something completely different, and a door to the new and unknown.
Read MoreDakar, Senegal, December 1982—a long way from France, a long way from Europe, a long way from the States—a long way from home any way we looked at it. We were really out of our element and our comfort zones in this post-French colonial outpost. Although indeed, a separate independent country, Senegal still depended greatly on French infrastructure and largesse, lending the impression of it having close ties to France and thus somewhat of a feeling of a frontier outpost.
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