Praise God and pass the Amex card!

Sitting at the local "spot" and waiting for Meghan. Off to Accra for Thanksgiving (of all things!). My one concession to anything American while I am here.
Thankfully, Ghana does not seem to cowtow to the US--they have a fairly healthy and cynical arms-length relationship with them I think. Unwilling to exchange one imperial power for another, I think, and very proud (despite their neediness) of their independence.
Dawhenya is really just a large truck stop. Very busy with a main road which links Accra to Togo.
Just sitting is interesting. A tro tro came by with two signs on the rear window...both hand painted. "Trust in God" and "Nike". Ha ha...well there are all kinds of imperialism aren't there!?
Road kill is a favourite dish around here. The goats wander all over the roads and, well...the inevitable happens. There is a little routine they go through here to test the freshness ...not going there though.
Thanksgiving was atrocious of course..too many white people and too much booze. Should have known I guess.
I moved on to Cape Coast..amazing place with the slave forts and museums casting a dark and imposing historical shadow over the town.
Emina is really spoiling myself. FNQ-like with palm trees everywhere.
There is a huge and well thought of university at Cape Coast...with all the beautiful beaches..Aussie students would never get any work done!
To Krokobite to join my friends on Saturday night. To a place called Big Milly's Backyard--run by a rather eccentric Englishwoman and her Ghanain husband. Reggae everywhere--Rastamen abound and the music stopped at about 4am.
We were going to stay longer on the beach, but one of the girls hit the deck quite quickly. We thought it was malaria at first but seems she has not got it...but sick with somthing.We took her back to the hospital she works at and she will be fine, I'm sure.
Photos are of Cape Coast Castle and Dawhenya main road, with Moses junior tking the kids across in the aternoon and my insane year 4 class. These photos don't appear too good...but they are fine on the camera..I think it is the computer place.