Timbuktu

Timbuktu, This is a city in Africa, When I was a girl my mother had an expression "from here to Timbuktu", I have often wandered where she picked up this expression since she never read a book or even a newspaper. I don't think she got the expression from daddy because I never heard him use it and I am sure mother had not a clue as where Timbuktu was or why the expression was used. In the 15 and 16 century it was a place to rest from your travels along the great trade routes of the known world.

Timbuktu was on the silk road during ages past a very important city but today is is a poverty stricken place of mud huts. It is still important in west Africa because the people produce rock salt to be exported.