Sooooo Accra is a HUGE city with a population of 22 million people, that means there is a LOT of land to cover, and that is what we did with the bus below…
We spent A LOT of hours on this bus and I can say I’m so grateful for it. It was a place where we started to build community with our fellow travelers and guides
We got to know more about each other by just conversing about our lives back home and our lives in Accra.
We also experienced so much in so little time just riding to venues. I can say after the day at the slave castle and our homecoming/name giving ceremony, that ride was a quiet ride due to self reflection on what just transpired earlier in the day as well as it just being a 3 hour drive.
I will miss Francis’ music playing up front as well as Nancy dropping her water bottle 2-3 times in a row and Steve or Selena saying, “Nancy you dropped your water bottle again…”
I will miss Enoch, and his laptop, reviewing the photos he’d taken the day earlier and sharing them with us on the bus. Enoch was the photographer assigned to our tour and he was with us every step of the way snapping photos and saluting to let us know he’d gotten the perfect shot!
I will miss my Mom, Adora and Keita introspectively looking out the windows at our surroundings, the Ghanaians just living their everyday lives as the wheels on the bus went round and round (see what I did there).
I will miss the perfect cappuccino with two brown sugars I had on the bus every morning.
Suffice to say, I enjoyed the bus, I enjoyed Francis or David saying in the evenings that tomorrow the bus was leaving at whatever time it needed to or those morning meetups BEFORE the bus with breakfast, coffee and conversation and then all of us casually taking the steps to the bus and sitting in our preferred seats.
It was such a wonderful way to tie a group of people together who were truly having an extraordinary experience at the same time.
