I spent three hours today trying to get these blog entries posted, with sporadic interruptions for power outages and sundry disasters. I did make it to the goldsmith, who is making me a pair of silver spindles - one with adinkra designs in gold on the top of the whorl, and one with silver filigree [...]
Finally got to sit down at an internet cafe, and while they don’t have new enough computers to take a thumb drive, and can’t set me up with an Ethernet connection, there’s nothing to stop me from reading the laptop screen and retyping my blog entries into their computers. So that’s exactly what I’m doing. [...]
Last night probably qualifies as one of the worst nights I’ve spent. When backpacking, especially in poor countries, one has to accept that once in awhile, you’re going to be stuck in a rathole. It happened to me in Vietnam, when I spent an evening in a windowless concrete cubicle where it must [...]
Well-known fact: roosters crow at dawn.
Slightly less well-known fact: roosters also crow at 1am, 2am, 3am, and whenever they feel like it.
Well, I did get some sleep.
I suppose I should confess at this point that Our Intrepid Heroine usually spends the first day in a foreign country holed up in the hotel like a scared [...]
I arrived here a few hours ago, on British Airways Flight 81, after an uneventful 22-hour trip. At the airport, I was met by a slender young man named Eddie, who bargained with the taxi driver who had instantly attached himself to me and got me from the airport for a mere $10. (Normally it [...]
Getting on the plane in 9 hours for my long-awaited trip to Ghana. Fully packed and ready to go.
The current plan is to spend 6-7 days in Accra, the capital, studying basketmaking, goldsmithing, and beadmaking, followed by 3-4 days in a weaving village in the Volta region. After that I’m not sure where [...]