Just to end on a cheery note --- Venita making friends at the dress shop. Regardless of poverty, tragedy, any horrors you can think of, there is ALWAYS someone to chat and laugh with --- if you're not enslaved.
The good, the bad and the ugly July 24th 2010 Concrete canals and gutters criss cross all over Ghana. Yesterday, I looked upstream while walking over the wood planks that served as a canal bridge. An evergreen-colored wave carrying trash and waste from the living sloppily made its way to my bridge; I quickly made my way over it, holding my breath as long as I could. I shouldn’t have bothered. I could taste the putrid odor way past the sludg ... read more
Africa » Ghana Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more
I'm a lucky soul who works hard 10 months of the year and travels during the summer. This year it's Ireland. Last year it was just Disneyland (money was a problem but I managed to win the Disney trip so yay us), and the year before Vancouver (May), New Orleans (6/17ish) and Ghana (June/July).
Sometimes I even manage to sneak in a trip or two during the work year. Life is very good when that happens!... full info