In Ghana, $50 covers a weekend at a Beach Resort. $3 for travel, $6 a night per person for lodging, $3-4 a meal for food, and a few left over for souvenirs. Not a bad gig!
Last weekend we left our village to just get away for a few days. The week prior several of the girls had gotten sick, Bryan was diagnosed (and recovered from, easily) Malaria, and emotions were running a bit high. The beach cured most of us. Kokro Bite, a small beach resort where you can take dance and drum lessons, play beach soccer endlessly, and challenge travelers from Ghana, England, and Holland to table tennis matches, was quite the spot.
The highlights of the beach are the fishing boats, barefoot games of soccer, the music, and the food. Scrambled eggs never tasted so good as they did on Sunday morning. The picture below is of one of the 2v2 matches I took part in. The little man on the right, Jodwenta, was my teammate.
The only stain on the team's weekend was money that went missing (theft suspected, unfortunately) and a girl's BlackBerry that got washed up with one of the high waves. Unfortunately those aren't waterproof yet.Still, as the pictures show, it was a great time with lots of smiles and relaxation in a more hospitable area. A fantastic retreat.
