Our plan for the morning was to go to Kumasi with the kids. We couldn’t get tickets, though, so we changed our minds. All five of us (Rosemary, Rita, Alex, Frank, and I) loaded up to go to the Volta region. This is the area of town where Frank and Rosemary spent time growing up and where their mother grew up. Our first stop was just down the street from where we are staying: the grave of Frank’s grandmother. She raised them primarily, and she died a little over a year ago at the age of 74. There have been several deaths in the family since Frank came to America. We said some prayers and let Frank have some time, then we hit the road. We headed out around 1, as seems to be our m.o.
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