Back in Accra

October 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

It’s been fun getting to be a tourist for the last couple of days.  Accra is okay, but they REALLY hassle you here to try to sell things.  It gets a bit old, so Nathan and I started trying to play with them.  We told one guy, “No habla ingles” and just started talking to each other in Spanish.  He replied, “Parlez-vous francais?” to which we replied, “No, solamente espanol.”  It actually worked!  He walked off with his buddy saying, “Now when you’re in Spain, you really need to learn Spanish….”  Hilarious.  We also bartered with one guy over an Obama shirt while a man was bugging us to take his taxi.  We ended up blaming the taxi guy and saying he said we should get the shirt for some ridiculously low price.  I don’t think the taxi man liked it, but we thought it was kind of fun.

Jimmy Huey is our liason here at the Baptist Guest House in Accra and has been really helpful.  We’ve got reservations for a bus ride to Capecoast at 7:30 tomorrow morning.  We’re planning on visiting the slave castles and hopefully doing the Canopy Walk at the national park nearby.  Then we’re going to stay at the Coconut Grove Resort in Elmina (the town adjacent to Capecoast).  It’s supposed to be a very nice place to stay, so we’re really looking forward to just relaxing for a night.  We’ll catch a bus back to Accra on Wednesday by noon or so and hopefully will have time to get all our luggage situated and take a shower before catching our 11:30 pm flight to Frankfurt.  We’re hoping this leg of the journey will be a lot easier than when we flew in.

Anyway, things are good here.  We’re looking forward to coming home and talking to everyone soon!

  1. One Response to “Back in Accra”

  2. By David McRay on Oct 28, 2009

    Nathan and Megan,

    When you read this, you will most likely be back in good ole Fort Worth, settled into your comfortable home, playing with your cat and fighting jet lag! You have had an amazing experience. Thanks for sharing it with us. I hope your family and friends have done a better job of staying in touch than I have! I have enjoyed the blog posts but have been a poor correspondent.

    You have done good work and seem to have traveled well.

    Welcome home. All is well here.

    David

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