Tilley Western, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Don & daughter Farish, The Gambia, West Africa

"Along with local friend Alpha Jallow, we are on the Trans-Gambia Highway, as far removed from the tourist hotels on the Atlantic beaches as the remotest African village.

The Gambia, only 50 miles across, sticks into the side of French Senegal like an irritating English-speaking finger, and is often regarded as such."