Christmas Day in Ghana seemed just
as long and bustling as any other day.
We ended up biking into Kumasi and managed picked the road that has the
most hills into Kumasi as well. 110
kilometers after Gyapa (or longest day yet), we thought were in Kumasi, or at
least a few kilometers away, but we were standing on top of the hill that
actually had a sign that said 20 kilometers to Kumasi and all I could see was
the next HUGE, I mean HUGE like MASSIVE hill in front of me. Forget mileage, I had to get over that hill
to get to Kumasi. Unfortunately, after that MASSIVE hill was another MASSIVE
hill which hid the next 5 MASSIVE hills on the other side of it that separated
me from Kumasi. What do I know about
biking? Not much because Armando, Margarita and Frazer all told me about the torture
of hills in San Francisco and biking up mountains. I rolled my eyes.
The ride, I honestly, don’t really remember
because of my exhaustion of reaching Kumasi. I do remember the traffic being
bad and nerve wrecking the closer we go to Kumasi. Also, being in Kumasi the
traffic was bad. I remember leading the group and not seeing a wide and deep
pothole in front of me, a good sign of tiredness. I slammed on the breaks and almost caused a pile
up within the group.
When we reached Kumasi, the plan
was to head into town towards our shelter because if we went to find food we
could end up on the opposite side of town. We would of then had to bike through
Kumasi, an obnoxious thought. However, hunger took over and we stopped at the
first sign of food. It was a nice food
stand that gave us each a free egg roll for Christmas.
Margarita hooked it up for us by reconnecting
with a good friend. We staid with Kwesi and his awesome Dad who built their
house and helps out in the villages with his engineering back ground. Their home was elegant and warm. They fed us full for dinner and breakfast
with chocolate bars, marmalade and all around, good, good food. It was a unique
Christmas for this band of adventurers
By
Evelyn Masoner
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