What to pay for: The Travis Diaries XXXXI

"I'm allowed to hate you. I'm allowed to forgive you. But I'm not allowed to pay for in cash things that could have only become fucked-up because of your actions."- Travis

For more in the Travis Diaries, check here:

Sex: The Travis Diaries I
I'm a man, DAMMIT: The Travis Diaries II
Love: The Travis Diaries III
Tiger: The Travis Diaries IV
Ambivelence: The Travis Diaries V
Advertising People & Blogs: The Travis Diaries VI
What's Left?: The Travis Diaries VII
Year of the Tiger: The Travis Diaries VIII
She said: The Travis Diaries IX
Dreams: The Travis Diaries X
A Bad Day: The Travis Diaries XI
Svengali? The Travis Diaries XII
My Way: The Travis Diaries XIII

How to get from Mali to Munich: Into Afrika with the Wild Wild East IV

09.02.09 The day began with apartment searches in Bamako and let me tell you, a trip to the grocery store, a car buying soree or an apartment search for foreigners will turn up higher prices in Mali than you're able to find in nearly every other country on earth. When they see a foreigner, they see cash, tons of it and there are just no two ways about it. An Apartment in Mali costs more than a house in Vietnam or a flat in Paris. Witness the photo of a beautiful girl trudging through the mud-strewn streets of Bamako and tell me how much the apartment will cost. Right. Now, go figure.

The day ended at 4am the following morning with my partner, coming into the common vestibule between our rooms in the family home and announcing that we were going to Munich. "David, we're leaving here". she said. She had seen enough of the country and was ready to go. And so we are now in Munich.

I will follow up on our exit from Mali later, (it was not all about the country) but for now, dear readers, the location is Munich. We have been here for a week and a half now.

For more in the "Into Afrika" series, check here:

I) The Antipodes of Mali & Paree
II) Good Morning Mali and the Red Toilet Paper
III) Family Feuds, Singing Children & The Sounds of Silence
IV) How to Get From Mali to Munich
V) The Trouble With Mali

$2.42 cents!: But not from PayPerPost

Monetize baby! That's what I urged you all to help me do a few posts ago and I'm happy to report it's working like gangbusters! A big shout-out to Joyce for getting the ball rolling. Before Joyce, I was just sitting on a measly 0.83 cents – for two month's work – but after her hard-clicking efforts, I'm up to a blistering $2.42! – a better than three-fold increase. That's all green my friends – all green.

And so with this little head of steam, we're heading into Phase II of the Wild Wild East Monetization Program. It gets positively snarky from this point on. Enter, the perfectly, positive people at PayPerPost. According to their website, they're offering me $20 bucks if anybody goes there and converts themselves into an active account because they saw it here first. In the fine print; paragraph 17.2a there is a small mention of "transferring right of first refusal of first newborn male progeny from contractor to client" and something about DNA checking but other than that, things seem pretty much on the up-and-up.

Here's a blurb from their site:

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You know, there's a lot to think about in life today. There's the global warming thing, the idea that a black man and a pretty woman are in a catfight for our nation's highest offices, that nasty bailout business, the fake memoir scandal and the debate over whether Spitzer's bitch will get rich or not – but here's a good clean, no compromise deal!

In accordance with the request from PPP I will dutifully be reporting to you about "all the new friends I've made", "what I have learned" and a detailed description of "what I'm going to do with all the money I earn?".




Shoot. I'm going to black out the windows of my Bentley in Vietnam so all the little people can't see me. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.



P.S. As a post script, I haven't heard squat from Pay Per Post since this went up. I certainly haven't made my $20 and they have not even approved this blog. I just wrote to them and asked them to discontinue my account. This looks like another dead end on the Internet. BS 2.0