Well, today means my trip is halfway over. My cell phone is dead, so everyone will have to contact me on this website. I am now in Kumasi, home of the Ashanti. Today, I visited the market, the cultural museum and the sword in the ground. There is a sword, stuck in the ground from the 16th century. It came from heaven from the Ashanti God. No one can pull it out. It's stuck. Legend has it that if anyone succeeds, that the Ashanti chief and people will lose their power and their kingdom. Marida, I thought I saw Byron for the third time. He was in Accra, then Cape Coast and now Kumasi. Are you sure he is in the US? On the bus to Kumasi, I sat behind a bus driver who has that
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