Africa 2007
An excerpt from my book... I sent this to one of the people that was on the Ghana trip with me in 2007. Before I leave this topic, I have to describe an experience we had on one of the last days of the trip, during our R and R on the last weekend we were there in the city. A couple of us drove out on a lonely winding dirt road cloaked in darkness and vegetation late at night. The bus rustled the woody plants making a soft scraping noise as we went. As the palm-lined and wild road opened up, we came out into a huge resort with finely trimmed green lawns, beautiful Gazebos, and white lights decorating everything. It was another world from the shanties and dirt village we had been around for most of the trip. The well-trimmed green lawns surrounded an impressive several-story hotel, ran out to a clump of large gazebos, and darkness beyond that. We walked into the first Gazebo. We were surrounded by a cacophony of voices from people dressed in suits and fine dresses. Some were