Selingue

Our teammates picked us up in Bamako and we then began the journey out to Selingue, where our team meeting was being held. It was raining pretty hard at times and the road was filled with pot-holes. Suddenly the tire in one of the vehicles shreded to pieces. It was an adventure changing it in the dark while it was raining. The spare didn't have much air and the pump wouldn't work so we put a tire on from the second vehicle and arrived after 10:00pm--a day later than originally planned. Despite the unexpected events, the team meeting went very well and was productive. Meetings from 8 am to 10 pm kept us so busy that Steve didn't go through too much Internet withdrawal.