Above the Clouds

Thanks to Nora at The Professional Hobo for posting our “week in the life” slice from our trip to Ghana & Cote d’ivoire from last month: http://tiny.cc/xem3c Nora spotlights a number of travelers who write about 1 week from one of their trips or ongoing travels and she has a variety of good travel content [...]

I’ve put some photos online from the trip so far: Ghana Cote d’Ivoire Here is a video I shot from my time volunteering at YCC Ghana.

I just arrived in Ghana’s Cape Coast for a few days of much needed R&R. The bus travelled with an armed guard. I’m not an expert in high caliber weaponry but the gun he was holding sure looked like an AK47. Here we were cruising through the jungles of the Cote d’Ivoire with a bunch [...]

Took an early initiative today to explore Abidjan. Thank goodness for some European styled food and salads with real vinegar – been craving salad ever since I arrived in West Africa! Abidjan is the world’s 4th largest French speaking city and my English doesn’t go too far here, although I’ve met a few Ghana expats [...]

I spent all morning walking around downtown Abidjan, cursorily looking for a net cafe. Imagine my excitement after 4 hours of searching to come upon the “Cyber Cafe” – I walked up stairs ready to get online and asked to use a computer. “sorry, we don’t have any internet access here.”

After 19+ years of writing my first Pen Pal friend, first starting with postal mail I met up with Kwesi, a journalist in Accra. I’ve been staying with him and it was amazing to finally meet in person after all this time. I had re-read all his original letters before this trip. Today I woke [...]

The ENTIRE country is ALIVE! I’m sitting out on the darkened porch fighting mosquitos like no tomorrow and Ghana just scored – major noise coming from all homes nearby – every type of noise imaginable, cheering, screaming, yelling, crying, chanting, horns, whistles and metal bells clanging! I’m in the country and I hear this sustained [...]

Nothing like working on a computer in a corn field! With the modern wonders of usb wireless modems to connect into the mobile phone’s network and the added benefit of having a netbook which inherently has a long battery life, I can perch myself, seated Thai style on the fertile ground among the corn plants, [...]

Greetings from Ghana atm – just got an email today about an interesting trip. If anyone is interested post back here and I’ll hook you up with Sergey who is planning this trip starting Sept/Oct of 2010. He’s looking for someone relatively quickly so he can commit on this …. ~ Dave ————————————————– I’m looking [...]

12 hours prior, I was walking along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC just down from the White House. 3 hours after touching down in Accra, the capital city of Ghana in Western Africa I was in the middle of the rural countryside far removed from the hub of activity in the two nation’s capital cities. I [...]