DAYS 1 & 2: TRAVEL
We left Phoenix at 7AM on Friday, March 8th and traveled through Chicago and Frankfurt on the way to Ghana. It would take us more than 24 hours to get there, if all went according to plan...
Heading out from Chicago:
With a 6 hour layover in Frankfurt, we were able to just barely figure out the German rail ticket situation and headed into town for a few hours.
Classic perspective shot:
After a few beers in the airport, it was off on a Lufthansa plane to Accra, Ghana! (On a side note, Lufthansa is my new favorite airline -- comfy chairs, free drinks, personal touch-screen monitors on every seat -- they do it right).
We flew over the Sahara Desert for many hours -- I didn't appreciate how large it really is! And we flew over the shorter axis of it:
.... it was a long flight....:
We landed, met the Global Water Brigades people, and headed to the lodge that we would be staying at for the next week and a half.
In the next post: photos from the Weda Lodge; background information on Global Water Brigades and the rainwater harvesting cistern project; introduction to the community we would be working in, Aboano; and an introduction to the water resources that people in the community currently have access to.
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