So, today was the big day for me to bike from Sokone to Kaolack... it was POURING rain this morning when I woke up, but i decided to give it a try anyways. I put my HUGE backpack on (i'm guessing that it weighed over 20lbs) and put my raincoat over that to keep the contents somewhat dry. I probably made it only 3/4 of the way to Kaolack before some guy offered to give me a ride in his truck the rest of the way... I was DYING by that time!!! After the pouring rain, the horrible roads were covered in mud, and i was soaked to the bone. At one point, i pulled over to the side of the road, and (making sure no one was around), took off my pants and underwear and put on a somewhat dry pair of shorts that I had in my backpack. But by the time the nice man offered me a ride in his truck, my pasty pale legs were covered in mud (the cars that drove past me must have found it fun to drive as close to me as they could and to splash brownish/red/stinky water all over me)... but he still let me in his truck!! Senegalese hospitality at it's finest! If I didn't have such a heavy backpack on, and if I wasn't soaked to the bone from the rain, i think i could have made it the whole 30 miles....