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We’re going to see a solar eclipse in the Sahara Desert. First we’ll take a two-week tour through Mali, visiting Timbuktu, Djenne, and Dogon country, passing through Burkina Faso on our way to Agadez, Niger. There we’ll pick up a larger eclipse tour, visiting the mountain and desert areas of Niger. We’ll see the eclipse quite close to the centerline in Bilma — the weather prospects are good in the Sahara. Afterwards, we’ll take a week to make our way through Benin, seeing the slave forts. Then we’ll fly back to Paris and spend a week with our friend Harvey, who’s there to see the Ring cycle.

I don’t expect that we’ll be posting very frequently. We’ll do our best to record what happens each day or so, and put it on the Internet whenever we have a chance.