The wheel and axle shaft left our rental vehicle leaving the met station.

Differential fluid oozing out.. It was fixed in a few hours—then fixed again the next day.

Pilot balloon inflation shelter at St. Louis.

Getting ready to set up the theodolite and tripod on top of the pibal shelter.

Interior of the pibal shelter. A hole high on the wall is where the head of the generator flew off...

The surface station at St. Louis.

Note the pedestal mount for the theodolite.

Checking the alignment of the old theodolite at St. Louis. Its azimuth was 7 degrees off.

Observers practicing with the theodolite.

Observers at the training session.

Our Warren Knight replacement theodolite—actually very old, but good.

White backed vultures next to the road. These are actually rarely seen.

John Mejia standing next to a baobab tree outside Dakar.