Marathon March Redux

Just wanted to show you a little proof of the Marathon March.  This is a picture of the group of us at the start.  I am the woman who is wearing a hat.  I would not want to damage my dainty complexion.  We are missing the older man volunteer in the picture and have added a random Gambian guy.  But otherwise this is the group of PCVs before our big adventure.  By the way, even though this looks like a down and out area, this is a fairly normal look in a village.

The next picture is shortly before lunch when we were still slogging though water.  You can just see my hat as proof that I was in the water.  This was not the worst of it but wisely most people did not have their cameras out in the worst of it.  You can see the water where the water had been on the pants of the last woman in line.  She is 5'10" so you can see what it was like.

We had lunch in a village that had been "invaded" by British artists who did super duper graffiti all around the village.  Obviously it was planned out but it was very impressive.  Here is a cool example painted on the routes of a baobab tree.