Making the best of our last months in West Africa with nine weeks to go before returning to the industrialized world, we busied ourselves this month in celebration of Bob’s 55th birthday, by working on the FS2BD project, running around the streets of Kumasi, doing a little pre-packing, working in the garden and enjoying our […]
SEPTEMBER, 2013 ISSUE #148 Read More »
Another month in Kumasi with three more of the same to go. Our August photo essays feature a walking tour of our Kumasi neighborhood, the joys of gardening in the tropics, a busy FS2BD project and fun time with fellow expatriates. BLAST FROM THE PAST Pamela by the Sea from 2004 and Pam
AUGUST, 2013 ISSUE #147 Read More »
It was a quiet month in Kumasi, Ghana, nice and cool, with time for friends and gardening. We said goodbye to Nauzley and hello to Melanie, worked on the sanitation project, ate well and as always, saw many interesting sights. OUR LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN IN WEST AFRICA This is the entrance to the first
JULY, 2013 ISSUE #146 Read More »
We made the most of Amy’s last month in Ghana, celebrating Camille’s 59th birthday at The Green Ranch, looking at fine Ghanaian art at the Artists’ Alliance in Accra and strolling the Botanical Gardens at Aburi. We also made a trip to the Kumasi Zoo, toured the Guinness Brewery and located one of Bob’s
JUNE, 2013 ISSUE #145 Read More »
May presented us with two factory tours (Kente Cloth and Woodworking) some home improvements, lots of comings and goings, hellos, goodbyes and fresh beginnings. DEEP IN The fecal sludge to biodiesel project continues plodding along. Two brave men remove rumen from digester #1 at the plant and a gaggle of big brains
MAY, 2013 ISSUE #144 Read More »
No kidding, April was a really good month for us. The rainy season has come, making gardening even easier. We enjoyed a trip to the coast for three relaxing days with Amy, featuring a stop at Kakum National Park. After our return from Elmina, long time friend Rob arrived to lend his engineering shoulder
APRIL, 2013 ISSUE #143 Read More »
Friends, food and fun – another well-balanced month in West Africa. HAMMOCK TIME Koffi, who works with Elodie at the Green Ranch, takes his first test drive in a hammock. It is obvious that Jeremy is a veteran hammock pilot as he takes a break from work and school. LOCAL FOOD BEGINS AT
MARCH, 2013 ISSUE #142 Read More »
Two trips, one to Bosumtwi and the other to Mole National Park, Savannah plants, numerous wart hogs, horses, a new container for the project, goat worming, delicious meals, a dozen elephants and one exhausting bus ride. BOB IN GHANA – 1975 AND 2013 In 1975 Bob was caught on film wearing a ceremonial horned
FEBRUARY, 2013 ISSUE #141 Read More »
The first month of 2013 finds us in Kumasi, Ghana. We were joined by Amy this month, requiring a short, memorable stay at Osda House in Accra with a side trip to nearby Tema where Bob went to school forty years ago. Also this month: garden harvests, the dusts of Harmattan, a new Spot
JANUARY, 2013 ISSUE #140 Read More »
In a fabulous finale to another fine year, we celebrated life, common sense, fun and fulfillment. Fulfillment in the energy research project that brought us to Ghana, common sense in evacuating Kumasi after a chemical spill fouled the air, fun grooving to incredible live music, horse shopping with beautiful Elodie and chilling out at Lake
DECEMBER, 2012 ISSUE #139 Read More »
