True to my word, I fell asleep as soon as I was seated on the plane, sleeping through a two hour delay on the runway and eight hours of the flight, leaving me with a comfortable amount of time to enjoy breakfast before touching down in Accra. Once we were through customs, we were greeted with this sign, which makes me more than a little concerned about the rest of the trip:
Having left DC late at night, it was disconcerting to leave the airport and see that, once again, it was night. The sun sets weirdly early here, so by dinnertime it’s pitch black outside. I haven’t had a chance to see much of Accra, since we went straight from the airport to the hotel, but I can tell you that there were lots of goats casually at bus stops and a graffiti reinterpretation of the cover of Bill Clinton’s “My Life.” Tomorrow we’re getting up early to go get our phones and exchange money and things, but I’m also hoping to spend the afternoon sightseeing.
I’m only in Accra for two days, and then we have another full day of travel to reach Navrongo, which is a little town near the border of Burkina Faso. Then we’ll have some time to unpack and relax before meeting our host, Dr. Williams, and getting started.
I’ll try really hard to keep this thing updated. Eric, feel free to badger me if I don’t.
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