Two days at the lake with Tim, Carol, Ashley, Jeremy, Justin and Joanne on the last weekend in August. The perfect get-away, beautiful Lake Bosumtwi is less than 25 miles from our home in Kumasi. With so many project people coming to town to participate in business meetings the last weekend of this month, it was […]
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OUR LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD We live in a small neighborhood called Adiebeba (pronounced Ah dee ah bey bah), just south of the Ahodwo Roundabout. A rearing horse welcomes people to the area but there are no horses as far as we can tell. The streets are vibrantly alive with neighbors, commuters, vendors, goats, sheep
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Adiebeba Neighborhood – It’s not just a home, it’s an adventure! AHODWO ROUNDABOUT AND MARKET How fitting that we moved just south of the Ahodwo roundabout which sports a statue of a rearing horse. This is the market where we buy most of our produce. We can count on onions, peppers, mangoes,
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Out on the Streets – Oh the sights we see! If we could only share the smells and sounds… A PRINCE OF A MAN Prince is one of our two favorite taxi drivers in Kumasi. Their phone numbers are programmed into our cell phones. Prince can often be found next to the
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WHO PUT THE DUMP IN DOMPOASE? Louis, Jeremy, and Bob made a trip out to the site of the Fecal Sludge (FS) to Biodiesel Plant. It is located at the municipal landfill managed by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) at Dompoase, on the southeast side of town. We took our machetes with
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Lake Bosumtwi – Chillin\’ at the lake July 12, 13 and 14 with Jeremy, Justin and Lauren CRATER LAKE VILLAGES Bosumtwi is home to about 70,000 people living in twenty-some villages surrounding the lake. The crater lake was created by meteor impact more than one million years ago. LAKE POINT GUEST
The Green Ranch – Horse trekking around beautiful Lake Bosumtwi with our wonderful host Abena on July 12, 2012 WORLD’s BEST WAY TO SPEND A MORNING Life just doesn’t get any better than a horseback ride around a beautiful lake and through fascinating villages with your best friends six degrees north of
That Nature Thing – exploring the wonderful world of nature in our bedroom and beyond AROUND THE HOUSE Nature appreciation begins at home, although the centipede Bob ran into on our bedroom floor was a bit too close for comfort. Camille found a three-inch long blue wasp outside on our back steps.
Stumble Inn – A place to refresh and replenish A GREAT PLACE TO TAKE A BEACH BREAK When we decided to head to the coast, Bob booked us a room for two nights at the beach. A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE Looking south across the Atlantic is a new thing for Camille
Elmina Harbor – a day trip to be remembered ELMINA CASTLE The oldest European building south of the Sahara and a must see so we went. Built in 1482 by Portuguese traders, the castle was originally built to protect the gold trade. (El Mina means “the mine” in Portuguese.) It was appropriated to accomodate
