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Chad!!!!! ( and Nigeria, too)

Friday, March 14th, 2008

We had left the village of Pouss and its market and ventured over to the Logone River which separates Cameroon from Chad in this area.  There was a sandy beach on the Cameroon side with a few people waiting to load into a large pirogue.  Across the shallow, but wide river was the Chad side looking much the same as the Cameroon side except more people.  I turned to our guide, Abdou, and asked if we could rent a boat to go to Chad.  He thought I was joking.  I was not.  We were soon crossing the river headed to war-torn Chad in a boat holding the three of us plus a captain.

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