Rollin in the Wingle (Part II)

Anyhow, we spent a restless night sleeping in the hotel room and awoke to the loss of power, which is when the air conditioner kicked off. Begrudging to wake up, yet eager to get the hell out of there, we pulled our clothes on (no water, no shower) and were told by Aziz to meet downstairs. Poor Aziz had worked to find a friend in Kumasi who had a vehicle he was willing to let us use. We were elated. We stopped to exchange money, and FINALLY had breakfast. Hot coffee and eggs never tasted so good. Even if it did come with a huge helping of butter on a side of bread. Whatever. We devoured it.

Aziz's friend David who gave us his truck

 After getting some fuel in our tanks, we all felt better. We stopped at Kumasi Zoo (the one Jonathan mentioned was the sad and depressing one-he was right) and made the only contribution we could, which was to buy some plantains for the chimpanzees. It was roasting hot and hardly any of the exciting animals were out. We left after about an hour. We did see some nice animals though.

The next several hours were lost in towing our old heap to the auto mechanic, waiting for hours while they wouldn’t give Aziz a straight answer on whether it would get fixed or not, what day it would be done, etc. Aziz worked so hard to let us have the car for the weekend. He really went out of his way to apologize and try to make us comfortable.

So late this afternoon we finally got going, in David’s truck (Aziz’s friend who works in Kumasi Hospital), and this time, the 2.5 hour trip only turned out to be 5. And this time, we found a decent hotel (where we are now), and although it is too late to see anything today, we showered, (which felt amazing!) We were so dirty and dusty from the ride that Elan’s white shirt was dark brown and my once clean hair was greased back on my head. We had dinner in the restaurant downstairs, and are now looking forward to a good night’s rest. Tomorrow morning we are planning to wake up early, eat breakfast, and hit the road for our sight-seeing after all.