# If Rain Forest Lodge is any indication, our accommodations here in Ghana will top every sub-Saharan country except South Africa.
# Chips (fries) are not made with potatoes but with plantain. The pineapple could be the best we’ve ever tasted and the mangos are to die for.
# Even by Africa standards, Ghana’s roads are a disgrace! Long sections of the main road along the Gold Coast that connects Accra with Cote d’Ivoire and Benin are under construction and unpaved. it took us over four hours to travel 100 KM.
# No one smokes!
# All of the towns seem to have electricity. Run-down hovels covered in red dust line the main highway and many of the schools have no windows. If you can’t find it in the markets that line the road . . . you don’t need it.
# Religion is a big deal. Two-thirds of Ghanians are Christian, mainly Fundamentalists—the other third are Muslim. Churches abound, billboards promote pharisees and all the taxis sport a religious slogan or two.
# New Year’s Eve is celebrated not by debauchery but by attending an evening Crossover church ceremony.
# Richard is a very skilled driver, which is a good thing since he isn’t always an especially cautious one. He drives carefully on the rough sections and manages to avoid the worst of the countless potholes. But he passes taxis, collectives and overburdened, smoking diesel trucks at the speed of sound on the most improbable places.
# It’s hot and humid. Very hot!
