Dakar, Senegal, December 1982—a long way from France, a long way from Europe, a long way from the States—a long way from home any way we looked at it. We were really out of our element and our comfort zones in this post-French colonial outpost. Although indeed, a separate independent country, Senegal still depended greatly on French infrastructure and largesse, lending the impression of it having close ties to France and thus somewhat of a feeling of a frontier outpost.